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THE SANDWICH ISLANDS
THE SAMOAN GROUP
NEW ZEALAND
AUSTRALIA, INDIA
CEYLON, EGYPT
BIBLICAL ISLES OF THE
MEDITERRANEAN
RUSSIA, EN(jLAND
SCOTLAND, IRELAND
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,., , . PUBLISHER'S PREFACE.
'^iXlr a^o^ '^Z^^ITT', '■ .^-"'^'^"-^'- tabernacles which he ha. h„iU-The
celebrate the twe„t,.r:;tr,e:: 0^^^;:^::^;::;:^::^:^'" '-^-His fHe.uls .leter.nine'^t:
vonderful silver jubilee-Description of
—Distinguished participants from other
^."^ K'<--i>i. i ainiage iabernacle— A dreadful rnnfln^r.t; '^, ■•^'' °^ felicitation— Destruction bv fire
interview with Dr. Talmage. . '^''''"^^'^^ ^""''^^Sration-An amazing record of fiery visitations-.
the ceren.onies-An international comnienio^ation^flhrevent-
-^:tTrSrJ;^^S^^=i-'----'-io.iiD^^
An
CHAPTRR I.
f. . , TRANSCONTINENTAL.
of the Grand Canon -Some
Yosemite— The Yellowstone I'-rk-
visit to
beautiful descriptions, . -_"-'=-'"'' ^eaowstone I-rk-JIarvels
CHAPTER II.
. ., FOLLOWING THE SUN.
car-An old lady's mistake, . . . . . . ^-^mpaign of the wilderness-An incident in a sleeping
^1 aboard for the South Sea
iuiportant facts— Th
CHAPTER HI.
PARADISE OF THE PACIFIC.
-A grizzled captain of the Pacific-A stav ,
-.^""•aiic lacis-xne question of annexation-HpV.^o.-r " ""■' °" ^^^ Sandwich Islands-Some
-Official courtesies-1 sermon in the church afHorT^'T''' •' """'"''^ ^' Honolulu-Cannibalism
l^auties of Nature-The world'," 1.!.." .''L^^'""""'"'" "^ veritable land of flowers-Wonder, .
Kilauea,
-The world's greatest
s— Wonders and
volcano-A convention of fiery m^o^nl^LsrCoVraUo^^:?
PAO&
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35-54
55-«7
68-73
4:visit to Queen Lilliokoulani
a ncwgoveniment-Jioth sides'of Haw
CHAPTER IV.
PRESIDENT AND OUEEN.
Interviewing dusky rovaltv-
74-79
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conclusion,
80-85
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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER V.
AN ISLAND OF LEPERS.
The
world's heroes and heroines-Joseph nan.ien, the noble priest-A tribute to h.s Rodl.ness and self-
sacrifice-Molokoi, the pest island- R<:Ki".e among the !ci„ts-Cheerfi.l, IboUKh doomed-Story of
William KaKsdale, leper-l.eprosy diagnosed-lTogre.s ol the .Usease-l'arl.nK ol the lepers Ironi
their friends— Moral leper
CIIAl'THR VI.
BATTLE AND SHIPWRECK.
the racific— Vision of the Sanioan Islands-Among the warring factions of Samoa-Queen
made— Malietoa, King of
A cvclone on ; ,, „ i .. •
'of the islands-Hell of the Pacitie-Trade. gin and kava-IIow the latter IS 1
-Tattooing and ocean chroiiialics— :\larlvrd<)ni of lasluou—
of manv walers-An apostrophe to the sea— A swoop of
Samoa— Labors of the iiiissionaries-
Inhabitaiits of the oceans— The voice
tornado,
95-10,'^
CHAPTER Vn.
UNDER THE SOUTHERN CROSS.
Four stellar evangelists-A tribute to the missionaries- Some pathetic stories of self-denial and suffering-
Customs of the Tahitans— Significance of the Southern
Cross 104-106
CHAPTI'R VIII.
ANTIPODEAN EXPERIENCES.
Balaklava on a dining table-Reception at Auckland, New Zealand-Dashed with a bucket of water-
Farlv vovagers-Churches .an.i female suffrage in Now Zealaud-A new interpretation of the story of
Adam and Ivve-Remiiiiseeiices of war and peace in New Zealand-Intercontinental conmiercc- _ ^
Charge of the Light Brigade, explanation of the blunder 10,-1 1-
CHAPTER IX.
THE BRIGHT SIDE OF THINGS.
Dr. Talmage's lecture at the Auckland Opera House-Perfections of nature-Harmonies that smother all
discords-Tlie blessings of amiability-The fault-finder-Two ways to read the same lelter-fhe deaf
man's enlhusiasm-Aii angel in a hospital-How to .listinguish a gentleman or ady--^Iany apt
ilhistrations-Titlle-tatlles-A bear in society-Senator Gruff an,l Speaker _Kiii<lly-Around the
hearthstone-The "ed.licated" legislator-An interesting portrait gallery- 1 he gloomy Sunday-
Habits diagnosed-Board-fcnce literature-The religion of wholesome exercise-Illustrative anecdotes
and metaphor,
CHAPTER X.
MURDER AS A PASTIME.
ibalism— Murder as a fine art— Experiences of early
1 13-134
The aborigines of New Zealand- Massacres r.iid canii
missionaries— Horrible customs- An opportunity for lecturers.
135-
CHAPTER XI.
WOMEN IN NEW ZEALAND.
Women's rights ascendant-A great scarcitv of women-The mountains of New Zealand-Wonderful
natural ■terraces-Incomparable beauties wrought by eruptioiis-A burning mouiitain-A migli y
cataclysni-The animal life of New Zealaiid-The giant Moa bird-Ai. aviary of wondrous curiosity
— A land of surprises
139-144
CHAPTER XII.
OCEAN GATE OF AUSTRALIA.
A rough sea experience-The glorious prospect of Sid.iey-A remarkable harbor-In the streets of an
Australian city-Sheep raising and agriculture - A post-ofiice with chimes J45-'5"
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CIIAPTKR XIII.
GOLD, GOLD, GOLD.
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wool) of
A descent into U.e goMen caverns of Au.strali.n-Son.e int.restinK fact. al>ont mininR-Fnbnlous .livirlcnds
-Observat.ons on the world-s luou.y-RecV- less specuIations-Ur. Talmage's iiftcrestrin rust'Iia" . i5l-,57
CHAPTKR XIV.
A BAKED MISSIONARY.
AnioHR the Fiji IsIanders-HarrowinR experiences of a nnssionary-Strange custo.ns of the island savices
-htory of tlie Haggard brotliL-rs-Draniatic close of a fraternal tragcdy-The
— Han(|Utting cannibals-
hot Mast of a .scandal— Savagery in civilization-
-Gndiron'i of persecution,
15S-163
95-10,-;
CIIAPTKR XV.
SHEEP BEFORE THE SHEARERS.
Introduction of sheep into Australia-Son.e astonishing statistics-Shccp shearing hv nnchinerv-
i.;eS::;is of^Aui^aiS'i^T'!"^:"' "":• ]-'-''-' -'-''- - -•""'^••-^•'- -' oL:::S:::^z
ITcriiig—
164-170
104-106
water—
' story of
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CIIAPTKR XVI.
CHAINS AND EXILE.
171-176
107-11:
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kangaroo—
■abbits— .\ word
113-134
5 of earlv
CHAPTER XVII.
ZOOLOGICAL WONDERS.
nugget of gold worth fco.ooo-Aiistn-ian cities-Metropolitan rivalries-Land of the
Mar\elous contrarieties-Birds of won.lrons habits-Tlie lau.diiinr i-u-k.s? tT > I ,
about the bushrangers-Highwaymen of fame and how tlu" t :.'i.xUrim7d' '"' :'."":•': ;'. ":*; ,„.,s,
CHAPTER XVIII.
SOME BIG BLUNDERS.
fessional mountebanks-Fncour-„re,„Hnt fn. ,1 " ■'''1'— \ anety ot occupations-Anahsisof pro-
Home ties-Phiiosopty i.rr"ss-;u:;:s;::rn:::;;;^-s:::;:g;n: a isxTrrrr-
of contentment-A .striking debit account-Mesmerism aiui credid^-A hap fi<'^'"t>->^-ret
jld engineer,
-The old-la.hio,ied llrepIace-Progres^-;rog;;;s-Su::;;;? u"';:; '"^ "''"'"• "'^"^ '" ^'" '^°""^^^-
182-198
135-
I'onderful
^ mighty
curiosity
CIIAPTIvR XIX.
GATE OF DEPARTURE.
A panic
expiai^ied by a participant-Something ■ib;^ ^^ i;;,;;:v:::ur'Re;;e;:;n!r Tr"'^ "f.^---^"'-
Good-bye to Australia, ' arkes— Renewing old acquaintances—
139-144
I99-20S
CHAPTER XX.
•';.£ ISLE OF PALMS.
Jets of an
145-150
I voyage to Ceylon
vegetable ;
college-
street-
able°i£^^^J^rof1^£reme n^r'''""^^r'"^^ in a profusion of both animal and
<e-The noisy cerSi^mt S B dSt iS'Ti^'^:, '^ """ H ^"'"■'""'- ^-^ ^" ^' J<-I^"-t
.-Pillar of light and colossus of gloom, .' ^^"'"^'' ''"^'^'''''' '' «''""1' "^ ""^ives in the
206-211
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CONTENTS.
chai'Ti;k XXI.
RELIGIONS, GOOD AND BAD. paoe.
Asolomn prorrs.io,, -H.lurntion in Ccvlo.,- riu. d^vil-worshipcr. -Superstition tnkinR the part of phy-
"" t^ rmmcVdtic; ..f Cc, ^.n--C.;nM..ris.„ l..w.uM.n,n.h.. n,ilru,nt- SU^
st..ts.m.<...g Christians confusing to IIinclo..s--/.ur,>astcr,IUwUllm,Mahonitaan.lClmst . 2.2219
CIIAI'TI'K XXII.
THE CINGALESE.
liusv scenes in the streets of Colon,ho-Male and fcn.ale natives of Ccylon-Qt.eer people ami stranRe
"" V ,"^-c!ti::s of the past-W lerfnl ru,ns nncnvere,! ,.y -'^'■-•'•f;-*^-^^:';;;:"'";;:,;^!;;;^
through ,leserle,l halls-lsacre,! relics of Bu,iaha-A g.^anfc tooth-Pearl Hshers of LeUon-fhe
largest ruliy in the world,
CIIArTl'R xxin.
ISL? OF IVORY.
Mnnificenceof Ceylon-Anin.al life of .he Island-lMyin^r fo.es intoxicatc<l-I,an,l of the clephant-A
Brand hunt bv royally— Man kille
220-226
I l.v an elephant-Ilow a war elephant captured a city-The deadly
cobra-Sa^redne^s of the poisonous replile-An in.plaeable ene-ny-l^ight between a cobra and .non- ^^^_^^^
goose — Valuable trees of Ceylon,
CIIAPTI'.K XXIV.
THE ENTRANCE TO INDIA.
Ascent of the Iloouhlv River-Interesting sights along the shores-Suspicious of the l^™';';'^-^,';-'^^;^
for the hot elin.ate <.f India-Adaptation to change.l conditions-A pen sketch of Calcutta- 1 he land
o iiols-l erview with a fakir- Adroitness of the priest-IIead.iuarters of Chnsfan nnssions, .
234-243
CIIAPTlvR XXV.
BURNING OF THE DEAD.
of dead bodies for cremation— Coqiscs
253-258
The canital of Hindoois,n-The liolv citv of Henares-Preparation ot (lea.l no(.ies lor cren,..u>,M-vu., ..,
admitted toTle Ganges-Sacrilegious custon.s-Marriage in India-Treatment of wues-Manu ac
T n loo god;-C,,ndition o'won.en in India-The ghatsof Benares-The Golden and Monkey
S,l;_ Wonder worship of the fakirs-Devils acting as attendants to S,va-Sacred monkeys-
Sumpmous n'rriage of t Jo ,uo„keys-Activity of the n.issionaries-Their hard work and self -denial. 244-252
CHAITER XXVI.
GREAT SNAKES 1
SlkerepXivebed-feIlo^v.s-^Vorshipofsnakes-S,u>kechar„.ers-Son>ech.^^
things of the household ' '
CHAPTER XXVII.
THE TRAGEDY OF LUCKNOW.
CHAPTKR XXVIII.
ANOTHER WOE IS PAST.
order
259-267
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313-219
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220-226
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237-233
ivisions
lie land
011s, . 234-243
Coqjscs
.imifac-
klniikey
iikeys —
-dtMiial, 244-252
^Rsed by
Rejitiles
Incannv
253-258
Siege of
-y of Sir
women
death, . 259-267
1 general
' of the
itives — A
animatic
.... 268-273
CONTHXTS.
(-■"Al'TICR \.\IX.
» THE CITV OF BLOOD.
IX
iloiuilifiU— Ki'fiij^a. platx' of til
• hunted thristians-.\ l.r.-.ve .lelf iki— The .lanio .,r dcath-
;•' ■--'^■"•' -iiiMrii)ii,)Ms 01 hope oil prison Widls— Xanii Sihil.'s ir,.„-1i,.r.. T . ,
274-281
CFrAI'TICR \\.\-.
MAGNIFICENCE OF THE TAJ MAHAL.
''■'■Cis;';!Xr::-;:;'ii»'r"::!;;;l;;?':;;S"t"''"n '—"'■■f»'"— ,„„..„.
2S2-286
Antiquity of nelhi— A r.iKc of inali;.
CHAl'TIvR XXXI.
DELHI, THE ANCIENT CAPITAL.
Dlazoiied with the Kohiiioor dianion
Relics of IMahoiiiet— Woi
I-loors red.ieiied with .sIai.Klllei--Mos,,i,e of Jiun.na M.isji.l-
mi of the past 2S7-299
uiers wrought at the order of Shah Jehan-A drea
CHAl'TIvR XXXII.
CITV OF ELEPHANTS.
":",:^s=:,?r?r;;:,s;s :^':-=--'^' -'•'^^ -■ »- *„ .._,„„
>aiid— Teni])le of ll
jey Singh— .AI
his ride on an
■ol the Suii-Z<.,.logical and hot-ini.-.I „■ r V '^,;- "^"";' '■■'nmanis-uivnsion of the
agniliceuee heaped with s le m l^; T'-^ "" ^'""'"'•■'i''-''""^' ''^"^^•-
elephant's baek-Dazlllng ,::;'u:~ " '^"^;"' "'f '^^ An,ber-Dr. Tahnage .lescribes
M CHAi'TKR XXXIII.
THE FIRE WORSHIPERS-RELIGION OF THE PARSEES.
Something about the Zend AvptfT n^i; r 1 . .
ganlet-Tlie To^ o'^^li^-'!!^,::;; ,:':-«;;;---f " '"fview with a Parsee priest-A lovelv
defends the custom of exposiinr cornsc^ ,. , '7^ """''"'^ '"'' ""^ f^'''^'---^ I'''"-«ee priest •
condition of women in I-iialSiS;;;::^;:^™^; -tlunr;- ^f .'"^^'^'^ '-'''"' ^^^^"'°">-
300-306
307-314
CHAPTKR XXXIV.
UNDERSIDE OF INDIA.
,; missionaries ^ "ni.ioo my tliology-A great congress of Gods- Work of the
315-318
CHAPTKR XXXV.
THE PYRAMID.
A iti oil through Cairo-Strange emntion^-A^cent of the
ot this wonder of centuries-Th
'.e— The voice of CioO
le uses it serves-
the pyramid-A view from the apex-Description
home reflect.ons-Who was Cheops ?-The ravages
319-330
CONTENTS.
Wontlerful anciciU ri\
cii.\ri'i:K XXXVI.
THE ARTERY OF EGVPT.
ICITorts t„ .liscovcT its s.-urcc -A fuinu.ncnl of prophecy-A trip up U.e Nile-
-Dusl lo Diisl,
Tcinpk'
vcloiis Kariuic ■
331-341
ClIArTI'R XXXVII.
THE BRICK-KILNS OF EGYPT.
nioUmn^L.isminI-:gypl-Sarcuphugi..r.no„.rd,s_r^ -"'^.^51
CllAl'TI'.k XXXVllI.
THE ARCHIPELAGO.
The spliinx-Sonu'tliing i;ran(lcr tlian Ibe pyrai.ii.ls-C.uo.l-l.yi
Testament- III a harlior ol" Cypnis-Risu— ■
lo ICKVpt-AinoiiK islands of the New
rrLCUMl trcasurfs-WoiKlerful history of Cyprus-TliriadiiiK
of the cavern— Till: brukcu seals
3oy-3
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CIIAl'TUR XXXIX.
EPHESUS.
. ., , . f ir.ii..i lit i>-iii1 Tii.l the mol) — The wonderful Stailiuni —
Epliesiis— Altars, temples and gyiiiiiasiunis
CIIAl'TlvR XI,.
THE CROWN OF GREECE.
1. 11 ,,4. \„-,ll- tliroiiirh Ih.^ streets — The Stadium nt Athens- A
Jdsr.U-1 astounding scene-Voice of ^IarsHiU-V.^^^ -'^9 ..9
CHAl'TIvR XLl.
POMPEII.
-At the corpse o' a dead city— Description of Pompeii-
Volcanic illumination- The my.steries of Vesuvius- - K,.view of Pompeii in its
Temnles of the buried citv-Pomp and beauty overwhelmed .11 a night-RcMew o 1 omptn . u
renipks ot ^^^^ ~> ;^.i^,^i„^ erupli.m Avalanche of ashes and fiery cnders-A scene o
'"' ''?Re^::^c:;on of the buried city-Reading the story of the ^i--^;-;^-;; —
.f a city— Verification of the prophecies— Amtnca
glory— Th
unparalleled fury
of galleries, rare specimens and bodies-Tlie sins of a c,ty-\ er.l.cat.on o, .... l^r^'- _ ■__ ,^..,^.
for God, . .
CHAPTER XLII.
THE COLOSSEUM.
A visit to the eternal citv-Iu the footsteps of Paul-Tlie Mamertine dungeon-A miraele of ^^'l^^^^^^l^-
Description of the Colosseum-Gladiatorial combats-Bloody beasts ^^^l^^^^^^'^^^l
1 „ , TTorf^i■,„ r,f '^i-'riirirluis- SavntTPrv of modern civilization— livils ot present ua> poiuies
S::^£!^:i:;;es;i;rSomud^^.f^he ruined Colosseum-Monarchsarraigiu..! be^.. judgment ^^_^^
— Mercy
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lailiuni —
lllT iiiuiii
-Worship
lecliiie of
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369-379
Pompeii —
peii in its
A i-reiie of
tonibniont
—America
3«o-3.S:
CONTKNTS.
XI
" CHAI'ri'R \ 1,111.
MV RECEPTION IN THE RUSSIAN PAUCE
M-..aninK -I' Russian fleets in American Ite - hnV. r V 7""^' '"'" •^"■^"-''^ '-' 'He„,!-
nies.,l,oultlu. ^:„,per.,r-S,mK. p, "J H ~J'l
A!exa,„U.r II-Tl.e .Lvil of pers ' l 'T^ " •''';'^''l'=' '"'^ "'^' Mrfs-Mercilnl .lispnsilion of
. Charital„e ..r«a„i.a,io„s-A' • Imri tt a d • ' iT ""''"'''' ^""' ''" -"'vi^ts-Trial l.v jurv-
inlerview in the palace of V r S" - pi p er:^" f^^^^ ..,ory-I„vite.l to n.^.t the Kn.peror-An
cil>-Acccs.sion of Nicholas the Secun'l, • |" -^lo^'uw-Surpn.s.nK thiM„s in that ancient
397-430
ciiArri'R .\r.iv.
GOSPEL OF BREAD.
/■. 431-432
CH.M'TI'R XI.V.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Painting in cheerful colors-r,oo,l wor.N al.out Im.,.1 „„I i
"cathc.r-A criticism on growlers- ,isi^!.,u •':;,":•' ^"-■""""'' "'^•''^"'"--Snn.ples of Hn^-lish
I'own in a coal ,nine-Sometln„K al.rn"uL':riru.""-H''T- ''"'"■''• '""' '"«-'--
Sp.rits of the pas, A tra^jic ronmnce-.A i m .V i ' Jm .^'•'^"'-'^'-'^ "• Kirkstall Ahhev-
•-. through Uawanlen forest-Storv of ^ ll. s Ir if ■"■' "'?'''' "'"' ""-' ^'''"'^ "'''
-An accidental n.eetn.« with the great a;;t;r:-;n;!.:;I:!:: I^ hlr'nU;" :" """" "'^-■'""" ''"^'^"'
*"' 433-450
f CHArTHK XI, VI.
SCOTLAND.
CharmiiiR scenery- Baptism of a Scotch hahv- Knl„.H m ,-i
the Scotch character-John liri.Ou- , -.p. n \, ^V'r'r; " '''''' P'-''''"-"^'-Ren,arks ai.out
the River Tay-Wishart an,l the assassi 1, ^^ of h, f ' :'^'.''~ "'^' "'«'"'""' ^Lou-A sail o„
.on., ahout aristoeracy-l„tc.resti„K fact al o t mous '"''''~'5""'"^ "' '^""°"« '■'-•stles-I.-als. opi„.
Lonl Kinlore an.ouK the poor-A visi .0 vTs '"'"'"" "" "'"''"•''''" ^''""'''*''^ °f I-ondoU
Welsh-I„ a car with a'n,a„iac-.V 1 o r .t;;; l I'-l-onounceahle .,an,es-I,iterature of the
'a"<l-KnKlish hon.es an.l resorts-A tZt ^/. tTrRe w / /'""'l. '^•'"^■''" ••'"''•'•■^•'' "■■'' E-'K"
places of I.;uKlan.l-Rtnns of l^icaniun -- \Vjic m^ '^"''^'•'■■^""-Tl'c Isle of WiKht-l.-a,„ou.s
thedevil-AtriptoIrelan.l-TlKM.i n ,-,. 1 re«'veries-A <,ueer store ahout IVverel an.l
Ireland of the iLt centuryUlm X^ he ^""r'r''''";^'-;''^'''"'' ••'"'-''''>■ -'■l'ared\;-S
•"K-lielfast an,l Kondon.lerrv-The ! a V ' "^ .' ^ "^^ ,'" " ' ''"'^■"-^ ^"'''■' '"'^- >-•'""-
<lescr,ption of the Giant's Causeway . ';'^"' ''_ •""P''.theatre and Dunkerry cave-Traditions and
CHAPTlvR XIA'II.
ON THE HOME STRETCH.
451-485
hitecture—
orror upon
y politics —
- judgment
fz :^:^:prS;:U^;:rs::t;^ ?r:;:;:^';f-;r'"^ ^"-^^ '- '--^^"'p^ -'^--'-a r-n or
- of b,essinKs-I,al,or in An.eri^ "^ p,^^' ' J^t Ji r^n "'~''^"^" "' travelers- An.erica ',e W
wUh Monarchical ,.:urope-Pri„celyLrL;o\';;"^'':i^^
ica-The cvic and the n.ihtarv, the poHt ^ 1 „ n.' ,,T^-''' "■;j"'<«K!vi"K table bein« set in A.ner-
'""•' '-"— ^""elusion of thejourLey-An:;«2p;:i'S°;if ^""" ^'*^'" "' "'''''■' '^'■'"-^-
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My raIa'U|uiii aii.l Ik'arers
Rov.il i;lfiiliaiit Carria^' Tsfil l,v 1 )r
Iii'lia, , . ,...,..■,.
Carvid KcliriMiitatioii ot' IltatlnMl Urii ,
Carviii),' ill liaUiiiiv, Kvaiiiij,', at M'^mii
iMiKa, ..,■.,'
Ci'Ifliratinii (if iliL' Silver Aiiiiivi i -.n . i.
iMa>,'i'-. ItrcHiklMi I'aslnratc, ...
M\ Travi'liMU' Cniiniaiiiciii, 1 rank DcWiU 'I
Till- 'i'alii riiac Ic Ik'ldfi' tin- I'ln-
Gram] Carmii (iC llic Coliiiacln,
Pli<>t(.,yra]pli ni Dr.Taliiiam.'
Loiikinil .Mdiiiitaiii
RiMT Stvx, Maiiiiiiotli Cave, . .
Main SlR'it, Sail I.akc- L'ity,
Mdiiiil (if till' 1 Idly Cross, '. ...
Di'iiviT, fmiM till.' Capitol,
Broailiiioor Casino. Colorado Spriiijjs.
Piilpil Rock, I'tiili
Grand Cifioii of till' Colorado. . , ,
Till' Divil's Slide, ftali
The Ilri-.ikin^; Kailro,i(l lirid^^c-
Clilf House, ,ind Seal Rorks
Chinatown, ,San I"raneisi(
CnpLiin Morse, of tile '• .ALanuil.-i," . . .
Tile " AlaiiU'da" I'assiiij,' the Cioldeii Ci.-ite,
Dr. Talina.ue on the " Alameda," , . . .
Harlior of Ilonolnhi
Ni,i;llt Seene in the Crater of Kilaiiea, . .
Ex-<JiHeii I.illiokonlaiii
S. 1". Dole, President of Hawaii, . . . . .
National I'alace, Ilonohihi
Main .Street, Honolulu
Hawaiian Ciirls. . .
Princess Xaiiilonius' Resi(U-iice. . . .
Ri'tnainsof Kiiii; Kalakaiui I.xim; in State,
Statue of Kanieliaineha I , . ' .
Kaufohe I'lrk, Honolulu, ....'.'.' .' .
Caiitain Cook's Aloninnent
Riee Cultiv.ilion. Ha\\aii
A \ative ]''east, Haw.iii
An .As])iiant to the Throne of Samoa, , .
Sanioan Residence
Kiiij,' and (Jueen of S;imo;i
Burmese Mother and Son, Showing S:nn]ile
tooin.n Anion;.,' rneivili/ed Races, . . .
Sanioan Cirls Makini; Ka\-a
Sanioan Cirls I'l.iviiiL; C.'irds [
Sanioan Counlry Risidence '. .
A Maori Chief, New Zealand,
A Maori IiwvUiiii;
Rhinoceros Hunters
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Maori c iiple. New /a.i
Suliurlis ol .\iicklaii*t,
Maori \\ido\»s, , .
I'iji.in I louses, .
Milford Sound, Ni ^
.\ I.ady of the \iv!
Itanana Cii-ove, 1 iji.
New Ze.iland Scein
Slii|i|iin,v; an 1';U'|p1
I'llhlic l!uildiii.i;s, Sim:
Sidney 'I'rani Car,
Dr. Talniaj;e .\nioiii; S'
.\ Heauli'ul \\ ^ .man ol
Mount C.< nianiera in l.i
The Pink I'erraies, .
.■\nslrali,n. Alioriyiia s.
Tattooed ( ,irl of Oceaim
Itaridii R'\ 1 r Native, .
Sidney II id, Sidiiev H
Itr. Taliii.ij;e I'lejiariiij;
Mine
I.oildon Palls, New South W , I- ....'.
Cascade, I.oddon Kivcr, ...
'I'asman's .Ari'h
Corahliorei- Dance, Aiistrali,i . . ,
Sin).;alese l!ei.'Kar [ [
Work in the Shearing Hinise
Kheariiif.; Slu'C])
Sheep R.inj^'i', Australia
Old Penal Colony of Australia, '.'.'.
A Illiiid Hindoo Hoy Readinjj willi His p'in^ers,
Sidney ('„irdens, Australia, .
Sidney Harlior,
Kaiii;aroos
Lau.yhiiiL; Jack.iss ■■....'...
Town llali Oi-f^an, Mell.ourne, ,' .........
(■eiieial I'ost-ollice, Sidnev [ ,
Town H.dl, Sidiie\-, . . . '
Native Sailors of the South Seas, . ' '
Jeiiolati Caves, India
lUirniese Puray, Danced lUlore Prince Allurt \ic
tor, at Manik'ilay
-A Princess of liurmah in Court CosUinie
David J,im,il, Dr. Talma.u'cs Dr,it;oniaii,
The I'.leiihant Hath, .'....'
Sir Henry Parkis .■...'..'...
The Relief of I.iickiiow ."!.'.'.
Dr. Tahiiaj,'e on Deck of Cevloii Steamer, . .
Amulets Taken froin (lie I'.oilv of Ti]i|io S,i
Conimander-iii-chiel ,,f the l!ii.iiiesi> Ann\-
\\'ei.L,diiiii; the l-.m]ier(,i, ...
Modern Cruciiixion of Criminals in India,
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ILLUSTRATIONS.
Priests AfUT
I'AC.i;.
Colossal Idol of lUuldlKi 209
The Wonilorful Iron rillar, 213
All iMciileiit of Kiiilroadmj; 111 IikIm 215
l-ainiiie Scene ill ail Indian Cit\-
Slate Horse of India
A lirahiiiiii Wedding
Sernenl I'agoda , ,', ' ' ' '
The \Vorshii)ful Tooth of lUiddha, . . .
Worship at Sunset on the Saaiiii Roek,
Return to the Monastery of Hurniese
HeKKi"K Their Daily I'ood
The War Ivlephant ., . " ' ,'
Lower l'l'„'ht of Stone Steps, Mihiiileale,
Shrine on the Suiiiniit of Adonis I'eak, .
Group of Hindoo C.irlsal their Toilet, .
A Devotee nnduriiiK the I'Mie
vShippiiiK i'l t''^' I^'^'^"'' ''""K'''>'
Bishop Heller's Statue, Calcutta
Nepalese Ladies in Costume, 237
Site of the Wack Hole, 23H
Croup of Devotees in a Temple,
A liurmese Cart,
The Three Cars of JuRRernaut
Carved Images of Dagon ' ' ; ' ,,' '1 "
Corpse in the C.anges and Crenialioii on the Hank,
Our Camel Carriages •
Preparation for the hnmolation of a W iilow, . . .
Monkey Temple, Henarcs,
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226
229
230
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241
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246
247
Brahma as the Pour-faced lUiddha 248
Golden Temple, Henares
Gosain Temple. Benares, ... ■•••■■,•
The King of Napaul and Commaiuliiig Generals,
The JIongoo.se
Veslival of the Serpents
Indian Conjuring Trick,
A Hindoo Juggler,
Fakir of the Immovalile P'oot,
p'akir of the Long Nails
Pakir Hanging to a Limb
Hindoo Stone Carvers
Lieutenants Havelock and Puselieii
Relief of Lucknow „"•;/•.■,•
Gener.il Havelock Greeted hy Those He Saved,
249
251
252
25:->
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255
256
257
257
257
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260
261
262
Signatures of the Heroes of Lucknow 263
Praver bv the Wavsul
Hindoo Priest at 'Ms Devotions,
L-rals and Chinese Ivmbassy,
Nepalese Generals and Chinese iMiiliassy ^o/
Sir Henry Havelock 268
The Viceroy's PUephaiits,
Sir Colin Campbell
A Hindoo Girl's School, ...
Hindoos Telling Their Beads, . .
Nana Sahili
Scene of the Cawnpore Massacre,
Memorial Well, Cawnpore 2SC'
On the Banks of the Ganges,
The Taj Mahal _ ■
Gateway to Garden of the Taj,
Tomb of the Queen in the Taj,
The Fort at Agr;
264
265
267
269
271
272
273
275
277
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2H5
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Akbar's Palace, the Throne Room 290
Rebel vSepovs at Delhi 291
Shooting Prisoners from a Gun 292
Through the Streets of Cawnpore . . 293
Chamber of Blood, Cawnpore 295
Audience Room, or Peacock Throne Chamber, . . 297
Buddhist Sacred Cave and Carved Figure of tlaii-
daura, *99
Shira's Bull, Mysore • 3'*^
Dr. Talraage and Son on an Klepliant 30'
The Prince of Wales Starting on a Hunt 302
Burmese Cart 304
SirJ. Favrer
Parsee Tower of Silence, Bombay,
Plan of a Tower of Silence
Car of Juggernaut,
A Parsee Wedding,
Colonnade at Mahableshwar
Inspection Day at an lOasl India Penitentiary .
Kntraiice to tl'ie l';lephaiita Caves
A Wall Inside the IClephanta Caves
Black Marble Hlephaiit
Suez Canal and Suez Town
The Port of Ismailia,
Great Pvramid and Sphinx
Pompey's Pillar, Alexandria
City of Alexandria, Place of the Consuls, . .
Caravan on the Wav to Mecca, _ .
Dr. Talmage on the Summit of the Pyramid,
Great Pvramid of Cheops,
Cake Vendors of Cairo
Iiiteriorof the Temple of Deiiderah,
Temples of Luxor
Shadorf, for Rai.sing Water from the Nile, . .
Moorish Ladies' Ajiartmeiit
A Dahabeah, or Nile Boat,
Natives of the Lpper Nile at Prayer
Barrage, or Wiiigdam, on the Nile. . .
Rameseum aii<l Tombs of the Kings, Thebes, .
Gbeli.sk and Propvlon of the Temple ol Luxor
Goddesses Crowning Pharaoh
The Colossi of Thebes
General View of Luxor
Island of Philae
Propvlon of the Temple Deiidcrah
Pharaoh's Hed, Philae
Muniiiiv of Raineses 111
View of the Ruins at Philae
Tombs of the Caliphs, Cairo
.■\ venue of Sphinxes. Karnak
Deck Scene on a Dahabeah
Great Hall of Columns, Karnak
Propvlon, of the Tenipbj of Isis, Philae, . . .
Greek Cerenumv of Washing the Feet. .
Church of vSan (ieorgio Maggiore, Venice. .
Venice, Pearl of the Adriatic,
ICphesus Restored, . .
Theatre of Dioiiv.sius, ICpliesns
Statue of Diana in the Ivphesian Temple, . .
Whirling Dervishes of Conslantinople, . . .
Ruins of the Gyiiiuasium, ICpliesus
Ancient Corinth, Restored,
Paul p;xhortiiig Felix
General View of Athens,
i View of the Acropolis, ...... . • • • •
I Paul Discoursing with Aouila and Pri.scilla,. ,
i Ancient Athens, Restored,
1 F'acade of the Parthenon
' Prison of Socrates, Athens
I Theatre of Bacchus
Ivruplion of Vesuvius
Street of the Tombs, Pompeii, .......
I Cast of a Human liody, from Pompeii, . . .
I Crater of Vesuvius
j Interior of the Museum, Ponipeii,
Ruins of the Colosseum. Rome,
Temple of Minerva, Rome,
Altar to the rnkiiowu God, Rome
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Interior of the Chapel Where Peter Was Crucified, 392
General View of Rome 393
F.xeavations of the P'ormil, Rome .394
The Vatican, Rome .^g.'^
House of the Romanoffs. Moscow, . . 397
Louis Klopsch, Flditor Christian Herald 39»
ILLUSTRATIONS.
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Jeni/J 39'>
PA(ii;.
The Imperial Fainilv -^gg
Dow.iKor ICmpress aii'd Her I):iii^;liter, ....'.[ jixi
A Wiiiur Daviii Si. I'elersbiirj,' .(,1
Prefect (if St. IV'tiTslmrK ' . .„2
Arch (if Triiin-.pli, Moscow . . , aot.
Dr. TalniaKe l<favii)K the Citv Hall, . .' ' '. ' 404
Russian Mililarx Tvpcs, . '. 4,,,
Fortress of Sts. PcU'r and Paul 406
Public Miisdun, Moscow '. . . , 40-
The Way I Wis Received at St. I'cler.-.lnirL', '. . '. 4,^^
A Friendly Talk with the C/ar jog
Nicluilas H., I':ini)eror of Knssia, ...''.,][ 410
My Reception and Interview with the C/ar, '. '. 411
Scenes of Dr. Tahnage's Rcceiition, ' .t.
The Haths, Pclerhof, '41;
Fountain in the C.arden, IVterhoi, ..!!"' 414
Basin of Neiitune, Peterliof ji5
The C.re.it licll, Moscow ! .' .' 416
Convoxof Condemned, Russia, . .' . ■ ■ ■ '
Winter Palace, St. Petershnrj^, . . .' ' .' ' .' .' 4,^
St. Isaacs Cathedral, St. Peter.sburij, . . ! . ' 410
Jew Mercliants f" 420
Tower of Sonkaretr, Moscow, ... j,.
House of I'eter the (ireat ' " ' 422
General View of tlR. Kremlin, Moscow Taj
Great X'otive Church, Moscow, '424
Palace and Tre.isurv, Mo.scow, . . ' 42^
Gold Ivnaineled Tea' Service, ....'[' 426
Temple of Our Saviour, Mo.scow. . 42-
AutoKraiihs of the ICmperor and !• mpress, . ' '. '. L.S
Cathedral of Ostaiikino, .Moscow, . 420
Dr. TalmaKc Responding to Speech of Welcome, .' 4,1
Buckingh.'im Palace, I'ront View, . j^,
Buckingham Pal.ice, Side View ' ' ' 4U
Buckingham Palace, Tlirone Room, ' ' Vt
Marlborough House, Lotichm, V^f. ,
A Corner in the House of Commons, . ' ' ' ' |,^
St. Paul's Cathedral, from liankside, . ...':;' jjo
Front View of .St. Paul's Cathedral jj.
Fleet Street ami St. Paul's, London, . . . . ' 4],
Hawardeii Castle ' j't|
Gladstone in Hawanlen Wool] j ,-
Rt. Hon. Wm. Iv. (Gladstone, t'-
' • ■ ■ 44,
I'AliE.
John R.iskin, As I Saw Him 440
House of John Knox, IMiiiburgli, ...... 4=2
Knox Church, where I Preacheil, ... " jii
Halmoral Castle !..'.! 4^4
The (Juetn's C.imeron Highlanders, . I'rc
Ross Castle ... . ,13
Holyrood Castle ! .' ! 1 ! ! ! " " 4-7
Robert Hums' Cott.ige ' ' ' jc,^
Dowiie Castle and Callows Tree, .."!.'"' lin
Melrose Abbey ' ! " afxj
The Old Curiosity .Slioj), '.'..,' 461
Victoria P:niliaiik'ment, London If,!
Westminster .Xbbev, London, . . . ' ' jf,0
Westminster Hridge and Clock Tower, . ! . 16s
Coronation Chair, Westminster, . . ' ' ,a'.
The Beach -a Prighton : ! . . .' i 469
Tower oi London j-^
London Hridge, 471
Tower Bridge, London, .......'..''' 7-,
Victoria Lmb.inkment C.ardens, ..'.'''' V.'i
Piccadilly Circus, London, 4-6
Queenstown Harbor, Ireland, ''■','
View of Lake Killarnev jig
Blarney Castle, Showing Hlariiev Stone, V-'n
Fingals Cave, Statfa, Ireland, .',... ' ' ' %,
I'Hon College Isi
Stoke Pogis Church and Chiirclivard, ! ' ' Isi
North P'ront Windsor Castle, '. . ,«',
Balliol College, Oxford W.
Bank of Ivngland, ... ' i'^4
Crystal P.ilace '■'.'.'.'.'.' ' ' Iss
Law Courts, London, Il^'
I)r. Talmage's I'arewell Jleeting at Hvde Park,' ' Li
Conway Castle, North Wales, . . ' . j^,
St. James' Palace, Lond.m ' ' ' ' 40^
Nelson'.s Monument, Trafalgar .Sciuare, , . " ' 404
Room 111 whi.-h Shakespeare Was Born . ' " ' V,t
Open ,\n- Services Before John Weslev Church, ' 407
Spurgeon's rabernacle ' VA
New York Bay and Castle Carden, ■■.'.''' jL
Hrawmg R(,oniin Dr. Talnia.ge'sIIonse, . ' sol
bleeping Room in Dr. Talmage's House, ... 502
EIGHT PflOTOGRflPHS IN COLORS.
1. My Palanquin and Bearers.
2. Tea Gatherers.
3. Mohamn^sdan Rajah and Court Officers.
4. Burmese Country Carriage.
5. KlnsThebaw's Prinna Donna.
6. Children of the Orient,
7. Golden Pagoda.
8. Palace of an Indian Queen.
Choice Initial Letters.
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lives are
for all till
can rear t
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iiis conte
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lie scattei
defender (
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while he i
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who talks
nacle is tin
For t
New York,
audiences,
popularity
too small 1
few years i
without los
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"Dr. Talmage's Ameri
can eelebration and Kece^tion Before Starting
n His Earth-G rdlino t-«..^ v.'i.arLmg
irth-Girdling Tour
one who Un.,. , [ TLu^^ tl^'tn hf :;:';;■ "^ ^f^' "^^^^ ' ^"^^
illustrious, the lordly the Uo.S . \ "■''''^' ''"'"'• ^^'^ truly
lives are at ouce son<:, fra™ sm i l/ " ^'"'>' :^-''";-^.^l '" ^'- J--^^ of life, who.se
for all tin,e i„ the hear s oflf Hha t "stt ^7' ' '' " '■''"'^^'^>- ^'^'"^^ ^° -^''-e
can rear to geuiu.s, for one spel^^ , •",";:[,; i'; !";f '^f -^'^^ "--"'- ^ that pride
under the rust of age. A nian's renu r o V f " ' '^""''' ''"'' ^°''^°"^"
his contemporariesrbut also by 1 ec^^ !'' ^'"'"1 '"' ""'>• '^>- ^'^ -^->" ^^
I'i-- Bysueh an 'appraise.^ 'of tuW^jt: t^T^^!'^ ^ ^^^'^ ^^^^
regarded as a coaspicuous example of worldlvh^nrfi -l;/^eW.tt Talumge must be
hands for iufinite good. His life s HkeThl, r r '"', '''" "' '''" '"'^^"""ent i„ God's
he scatters kiudn^ss as U, J owe r tuters , ^'^ ^
defender of the weak, a Samso Lt g b^ i^ ^ 1 ' San.aritan an.ong the needy, a'
"To ^yhat denouduatiou does Dr. Talma- e do^.X- t '""^ "'"• '''°'^^' °'^^" ^'^^^
while he is a u.ember of one church he if. c\lr ^ he answer must be given that
Not oue who prepares the way a di the B^n isf "'' "''''''''' ''''' ''''^' Christ,
did Paul, but he is a disciple and ev^t^e L n ' T' '' °".":'''° establishes churches as
who talks to the human 1 e; a' d^S!n'd' " '""^''f "°^ ^^ ^'°^t""^^ I^nt of brotherhood ;
nacle is the heavens above! Ind'thf^M hiTcre^:;;::^^ ''"' " '' ^^"^^'^' '''^^ ^^'-
^^^:rZ^:jT.^ ^^"-^^^ "nniste;;d^ a diai^e i„ the citv of Brooklyn
audiences, but i:^^^^^:, '^t^Z^ ^-^ '-.'-^- P-chiug there to snuS
popularity grew apace, and veoouttT ?"""" ?.^''^'- ''''''''''^ '" """'l^ers, his
too smal. to accoLnodlue In wo a o it llT^'t U ''"°"^"' '''' ^^""^^ ^° '^^
few years it too became inadequate both iu X ;, '''"' °"' '''"' ^■''"''^^' ^"^ in a
without loss of life, aud then a H t' . ' '"'^ convenience. A fire destroyed it,
so rapidly that, largV t tructr^t";;' n" '"'^'' '"^ '"'^ -"^--eRation increased
A second tin,; the tong e of fln^^^^^^^^ "°' '°"''^'" '^^ that would hear him
1-rifieth, and with unrXlrllu u " uelhTn ^"'T"'"' '''^ ^""'■'^" ^^'■''-' '^'^ «-
took upon hinrself the burden orljnc^T' '" ""conquerable spirit, Dr. Talmage
(35)
30
THK KARTH OrRDLKD.
itsspaci..„s naves, an,l th. w.,,, l:: t L 1 :;S;?V; '7"'" '■""'■■"'^'' ^'■'•"""''
can undusta.ul, the ,u„„en ,; ,h, : ; L ,, ^t T'"' ""'" ''" ■""' '''" ^^•^"- '"•
<!<•- tl'^- -.tcrtainnuntswhi 1 :•"'"■'" '"' '^'^'''''^ ^'■^- ^'•^'^■^■'i"."' ^'■^•^ he is force,! to
occupies so ,n„eh , h i :" XZacT'] U T''^ ''" ^ l-''-- which
'•>ana,csto,los„,„,u-h ■„.,;.., '" f ''"■^' "'" '="' '" ^^•"-'^■'- ''-^- ''«
'im there isa li.nil e n i , ,■ '"^^' '■'"";'■' ";"-l ;—o„,plish what he does so well.
'""■-lens of „,a„ifoI,| exactions .n-I inc a'i, - ^ !?'!''"' vcars so much as the
'''■tl> vcarof his pas,. .rue i„ T 1 "''"' " '^ '-l""-c">cnls. When, therefore, the twentv-
l="-''t"^" would V ; s J r ,"n \' ^:'"--^-'"^>-fivc years of nnren.ittin.
of hi. own con.M-e,; i ,; , " "' '^^ '•-''••^•"■-I>'-- 'i^al-na^e, thron^h the „r,in^
--Ivcd to tak:a,r n , e c-un T" "! '''''^'■^^'^•^'"" ^' '- "'-n phvs,cal .i^ec^
iron, tlK. exhaust- t w u e 7 ''"''''' !\'}' ^'"^ ''^^ '-^-1 '-• '-cccation, ,or a chan.
'■od-s n>oruin.,s in ^he 1 ' ' , /if'"'' n"' ':"" ""'"• ^■--- -><' f-' ^''c frcshness^f
I'astor who visits his eonin
lol
ti
irouijh tl
innicants.
ic new.
iicarlv all the 1,-
■papers to nion
tl
>'■ as Dr. 'j'al
niaye
not as a tourist, hut rati
has f(
icr as a
)r a 1
la:; iwentv-
li\-e
find
n"iiaijes
mill
ions ot
iiian\- who are regular i
ciNiJization, wherever he nii'-ht
Olio- while preached
])ersons ever\- week, and
tra\-
caik'rs o
f 1
When the ]inrj>ose of Dr. Talnia'-e 1
lis sermons.
el he would he cert
111
liii to
iiian\- ])r()minent cit
hi-
th
pastorate in that cit\,
i/uis of J!ro()kl\n to f
)ecame known, it was
T
e 11' )\-ement s
tiiitil, to
jirea.
1 all
lie sui
iltin<4l\- celehrate the twent
immediatelv
satisfy the demand, the d
>\er the countv
^-stion was hailed with suci
and thence to I-
>-fifth an
1 universal a
proposed
r,sar\
pprov
of
iirope, and to all Christend
reception, which wa ; t
o be
emonstration took the fonii of a national and
tliat
OIIl.
;i\-
1 8
94> tliri'e daws before tl
i\-en in the Oreat Tal
gatiou of the earth.
I'"or this mai.;n
Rieat chure
the front of t
le (lav he liad
)erna?le on tlie tenth and el
ap]X)iiited for startii
international
leventh of
i.s; upon a circumnavi-
ihcent Jul)
1 biuldiny w;
)ilee coinnieinoration, which was at
,^- was si)lendidly and elaboratel
o
le ,i^reat on^an w.
\' (
nee ovation and pcean, the
a 1,
American and fla-s ,f ,,'tlier nation.
iiacle liis ])ulpit ; t
ph
Tl
ir^e portrait of Dr. 'J'ali
lered
le world his an
I'luleriieath tin
iisli, embroic
lie front of the
(hence.
witl
1 L'oli
.galleries was drap(jil witl
In tl
li
le centre st
The back of the platfc
ccorated with banners and fla,<>s. On
na.i^e surrounded by a cluster of
•se was the inscri])tion: " The Taber-
<"id an enormous
1 l)lue
orni was liun<i- with crini.son
oiuinet of lilies and ro.ses.
pliish, heavil}- cnibioidered
in «o](i, and
HP'
r-
^^^^
;i,
inioiis divine
- coiitri 1)11 tod
lid appiMk'd ;
I) utiitT man
X'])ti()ii of a
^ t'filllplttL'd ;
dul tlir()ii<»li
iiiiciu to the
iiia,<4iii(icc'iit
to people of
ilace.
'(.Tiiioiis, lias
has seen, or
i-lie lar<^est
is foreed to
Icnee which
Ilt how he
Iocs so well.
IS seems to
inich as the
the twenty.
inreiiiittin<r
the iiroinirs
■<ic-al needs,
)r a elianoe
reshiiess of
been made
rather as a
preached
i-'k, and in
certain to
oposed b\'
versar\- of
roval that
listcndom,
cniational
eventh of
rcmnnavi-
pa^aii, the
fla,<;s. On
cluster of
lie Taher-
ti crimson
uid roses.
Rold, and
3^
run I':arth (hrdlkd.
everywlu'iv wiio tlic .Stars ami Stripes, drapiiifj^ tliu cornices and windows, twined abotit
pillars and (vnllineil aJ,^'linst the other ]ian.<;in<;s, so that tlie American flasr dominated the
huildinj^, and the occasion. And how j^jrandly ajipropriate were these embellishments, for
next to his allc.i^iance to Christ Dr. Talnia<re acknowledj^es with loxai pride his lovinj; fealty
to his counlr\'.
Ivij;ht o'clock was the hour appointe;! for the he^inninjj; of the celehrative services in
the Tabernacle, bnt lonjj before th.it time a tremendous crowd had ^fathered about the
building completely blockinjjf, w-ith a jam of eager humanity, .several squares. Hy .seven
o'clock, before the front doors were opened, the immense edifice, capable of seatin.i;
comfortably 5000 persons, was filled to its utmost limit, save the platform, which had been
reserved for special guests and th(>se luuing in charge the commemorative exercises. When
the hour of eight arri\ed ser\ices 'vere ojiened by the organist, Henry Eyre Hrown,
rendering a brilliant composition of his own for the occasion, entitled " The Talmage Silver
Anniversary March," which was received with a great applause.
When the last note of the organ died away, and expectation was on tip-toe, a
distingnislied company of participants, headed by the Mayor of B: joklyn (Mr. Schierer.),
filed out of the pastor's room and onto the platform, followed by Dr. Talmage him.self, whose
face was radiant with goodwill and gratitude. The excrci.ses of celebration began by the
entire audience .singing the doxology, after which the Rev. James M. Farrar oflTercd a prayer,
then followed the introduction by Mr. Dinion, one of the trustees, of Mayor Scliieren, who
had been chosen ti; preside.
The first night of the commemoration was a distinctively Brooklyn celebration, and
nearly all the .speakers were notables of that city, among the number being di.stingnished
Catholics, Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians and representatives of other denomination.s,
besides the uiost prominent officials and citizens of Brooklyn. Mayor .Schieren welcomed
the va.st audience in a speech of much warmth and congratidatiou, wherein he paid a
splendid tribute to Dr. Talmage and to his congregation ; other elociuent speakers delivered
encomiums on the geni:'s and work of the great preacher, which were received with the
heartiest acclamations from the delighted gathering. Those who thus addressed the va.st
audience on the first night of the celebration were : Hon. Charles A. Scliieren, Editor Bernard
Peters, Rev. P'ather Svlvester Malone, Rev. Dr. John I'. Carscm, ex-Mayor David A. Boody,
Rev. Dr. Chegg, Ra1)bi K. De Sol. Mendes, Rev. Dr. Louis A. Banks, Hon. John Winslow,
Rev. Spencer V. Roche, Rev. A. C. Dixon.
.\t the reception, Thursday evening. Rev. Dr. dregg, among other things, said :
"There is only one Dr. Talmage. There is more or less Talmage in every mini.ster, but
he is all Talmage. He lives among us nnicpie. There is bnt one uuin in the American
pulpit that can draw, and hold, and thrill, twice every Sabbath the \ear round, an audieuct
of 8000. There is but one man on the globe that preaches the gospel every week through
the press to 25,ooo,oof). There is only one man living who, in taking a trip around the
world, can sav : ' I am sinqjly out for a sea.son of jxistoral calls. I am taking a walk amon,:^
the people of my congregation.' [Laughter and applause.] There is only one Dr. Talmage.
With this fact before my mind I come to this great meeting to-night to congratulate oui
nmnicipality that Dr. Talmage is a citizen of I'.rookhn ; to congratulate this vast church
that Dr. Talmage is still the pastor of the lirookhu Tabernacle, and to congratulate m\
brethren in the ministr\- that Dr. Talmage is still a member of the Brooklyn Presbvterv in
good and regular standing. [Laughter.] .\s hi.s nearest Presbyterian neighbor, and as one
of the delegates of the lirooklyn Presbytery ai)iK)inted to stand on this platform, I bring to
Dr. Tab
V Presb\te
■'I another :
y my bretl
cliaractei
success
man the
willingly
century <
confess tl
; afloat an(
I and to b
" have .see;
[continent
! pictures t
[nations g,
[which Dr
[rhetorical
■■^^silence.
Jfills the h
.'\mo
"lai
Iflowers frc
/here I n
Iby the hai
{known ch
fjall preach
Ibecause I)
to its bein
" It is
ponsecrate
^ost .so mu
)ff of the
panclified (
■■as stood
example a
live their c
At tli(
^ndience 1
Restored sii
" Deal
le, and fri
rieiids ind
>f May ro,
fices will 1
lav^ passe
ii.worthiuf
THE WORLD AS SKEN TO-DAY.
twilled about
(loiniiiatcd the
llislinieiits, for
s loviiij^ fealt\
ive serviees in
red about tla-
es. Hy seven
)le of seatiiifj;
licli had been
rcises. When
Kyre Hrown,
'ahiiage Silver
on tip-toe, a
Mr. Schiereii),
himself, whose
bcj>;aii by tlie
Fered a prayer,
Schieren, who
lebration, and
distinguished
lenoininations,
;reii welcomed
ein he paid a
.kers deli\-ered
'ived with the
•essed the vast
iditor Hernard
ivid A. Boody,
ohn Winslow,
;, said :
• minister, bnt
the American
d, an audience
week through
ip around the
a walk amon.i,'
> Dr. Talmage.
ngratnlate ouv
is vast church
[igratulate my
Presbytery in
lor, and as one
nn, I bring to
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Dr. Talmage and his great flock the goodwill ar.d the. praver, and the (;.,d>p..,i U the
I lesbytenan community in this citv of ehnrches. I have come lo this naeting to-night for
another reason. It is a reason which all the ministers here have lor cnming. I cmue as
mv brethren here erne, to .lenionstrate to the pnblie the freedon. Mom jealon.sv which
ciiaracten/.es the men ot the .Vmeriean pulpit, [.\pplanse.j \\V hcartilv rejoice in the
success ot c-very true man of Cod, and we are glad ..f the opportunitv to pav to eve.v sncli
u.an the Inhute winch he has lawfully earned. While I disdain, all jeall.irsv and to-night
w.il.nglvpay the tribute of prai.se to mv bdoved brother who rounds out a quarter of a
ecu ury o. "."It-tuduious and successful labors in this tal,ernacle, I am honest enough to
7 'YWT ■•'^'-:,!;' ''^^ ^''''^' t" P-"--'' -it!, a power that could set all these flags
a |.a and at n 1 mast. 1 he man who can do that is entitled to be circled round and ronml
nd to be sain ed bv these flags as Dr. Talmage is on this occasi.ui. [.\pplanse.] .As I
have seen Dr. lan.age from the pew I eonsi.Ier him the greatest word painter on aiiv
-n .lien of earth. He paints for Chri.st. He thinks in pictures, and he who thinks in
patmes thinks vuulK He paints with a large brush, with colors that burn and glow, and
uat.ons gather around his pictures and feel an uplift and a liolv thrill. There is one t him.
winch Dr. ralinage is able to use beyond any man I have ever heard speak, and that is tl,;
rhetorical pause. He makes his sermons vivid and i,npre.s.sive with the flash of a ooldeii
^sdeiice. Having rouiued his period and finished his point he stops until the hush of heaven
ifills the hou-se and until the audience has felt the power of (lod's truth "
Among other things Rev. Dr. Banks .said :
"I am very glad, Mr Chairman, of the opportunity of bringing nn- handful of wild
powers from the Oregon hillsides where I first came to know aud;i,uire Dr. Tilma.e u d
.^.ej. nej.r dreained that I should ever live to see him in the flesh, much less t^e 1 „
b^ the hand), and add them to the garland we are weaving for the head of the most wi le v
|:nown c leftain ot the American pulpit-iudeed, I doubt not, the most universaH li^of
#11 iMcachersiiow living in the world. I am glad to do this for several reason^ Vh4
Ibecause Dr. ralmage has in mv judgment, done more to revolutionize preaching iii respect
|to Its being made entertaining and interesting, than anv other man now among ns ^
* o,K .il/V- "r -.'"r '" f ^' ''"' "" "^''^^ '"""^^^^ ^f" ""'• ti'"^ ''-^ ''""e so much to ^nve
onsecated imlividuahty the right of way. I believe that in no other wav has hnmani v
lc.t so much as ni the rept^ssion of individuality. Against the tendency- to cut all "^
-fi 1 1 ^"' '""' "^ '^°'''' "•"'^^' *''^^'" "P '" tl"-^ ^'■'-"-' -^tvle and hold them to a so to
^nctifieddndeism, midway between a corpse-like dignitv ami pious imbecil ) Tahi .e
vunl "■; ' ^'"'■'f /"-■^'^-' -^'1 tl-"-"cls of young ministers, enco, rag 7 hts
,xam le and inspired by his independence, have been brave enough to be then^elv s a,
In e their own lives and do their own work in their own svav "
At the close of the meeting Dr. Talmage was called for, and as he came forward the
.stoied sufficieut y for him to speak. His response to this ovation was as follows :
e and w' r 1 '■"• '" ''""'''^" ^''^°''' ""^^' '''''^ '""^"'"'■^ ''^'"'"^^ ">^^ ^-^"^1 f'iends all around
M
i
1
40
run HARTH C.IRDIJCI).
>()ur ini'Miui' or NoitrsiKccli, m wlm liavc by IcUfdr li If^^iarii or cahlc^jrani sent salutations •
and unwoithinis.— for who wonld ilaic to take to Iiinisclf onc-lialf of tlie ai)i)huulat()r\
tliin<is liiMf to-nij-ht ntttrud ? Wliilc our niaj,'nctic ami clocinL-nt friends were speakini.-
it seemed that thiv ninst mean some other man than inxself, someone with more pHV
and holier life and lii-her aehievenients. What a eommin«;linn of all relij^ions ! Snrelv
upon no platform sinee tlie world stood have there been j^athered so many different
stylfs of belief. Tliis is a .seetion of tiie milleiniium let down. The lamb and tlu
lion here lie down U-ijether, and von eannot tell who is the lion and who the lamb.
The same spirit reigns here that the Onaker e.\pres,sed to (n-oi^e Whitfield, when
Whitfield in his clerical .t^own was disposed to criticise the broad-brimmed hat' of the
(Juaker. and the latter .said: 'Ceorf,^', I am as thou art. I am for brin-in<r all men tu
the hope of the K'ospel ; therefore, if thou wilt not (piarrel with me al)out m\ broad brim, I
will not quarrel with thee alxml thy l)laek <rown. C,eor--,e, j,nve me tliv hand.' God ble.ss
the mayor, the ministers, the lawyers, the doclo.s, the merchants, the citizens, Die splendid
men and the ma,>(nifieent women of lirooklyn. I am not surprised at what a policeman
told me on the Hrooklyn bridge a few da>s a,o;o, when he said that he wonld rather be
luuif,'- in lirooklyn than die a natural death in an;- other city. I cainiot quite adopt that
sentiment, but I do l)elieve that lirooklyn is a lovely place for residence. There are three
cla.sses of people whom I esi)ecially admire: :\Ien, women and children. .Ml this scene
to-ni^ht confirms me in the idea I lonjr a<ro adopted, that this is the brightest and best worl.l
I ever <,rot into. The fact is, I can stand as much kindness as anv man I ever knew. My
twent\-five yeans in Hrooklyn have been happy years. Hard work of course. This is the
iourth church in which I have prvulied since comin- to Brooklyn, and how much of the
difficult work of church Iniildinj,- that implies yon can appreciate. This church had its
niother and its j,nandmother and its };Teat-randniother. I could not tell the story of
disasters without tellin,i,r the story of heroes and heroines, and around mc in all these years
liavc stood men and women of whom the world was not wortliv. But for the most nar't the
twenty-five years have been to me a j^reat happiness. With' all j,r„od people here'present
the wonder is, althonoji thev mav not express it, ' Wiiat will be the effect upon the pastor
of this church ot all this scene?' Only ..ne effect, I assure von, and that an inspiration for
better work for (lod and linmanit>-. And the question is alreadv absorbiiicr nu- entire nature
'What can I do to repay Rrookl>n for this -reat uprisiiijr?' Here is mv hand and heart
for a campaij,ni ol harder work for God and ri-hteonsne.ss than I have ever vet accomplished
I have been told that sometimes in the Alps there are great avalanches called down bv a
shepherd's voice. The pure white snows pile up higher and higher like a great white throne
mountains of snow on mountains of snow, and all is .so delicatelv and evenly poised tint
the touch of a hand or the vibration of air caused by the human voice will send down the
avalanche into the valleys with all cncoiniiassing and overwhelming power. Well to-ni<rht
I think that the heavens above us are full of pure white ],lessings, mountains of inercv'on
mountains of mercv, and it will not take much to bring down tlie avalanche of benediction
and so I put lip my right hand to reach it, and lift my voice to start it. And now let the
avalanche of blessing come upon your bodies, your minds, vonr .souls, vonr homes, voiir
churches and your city. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlastin--
and let the whole earth be filled with His glorv ! Amen and amen ! "
At the conclusion of Dr. Talmage's remarks and thankofferings the audience applauded
most heartily and then further manifested their feelings of loving appreciation and endear-
ment by singing
" God be with you till we uieet again."
Th
march f
disperse
their aff
Tlk
Brooklyi
an ovatii
The cele
cit\- was
The first
the l(jvit
CliristeiK
the occai
accord ill"
by presen
women, t
sermonize
The
eloquent
the " Tab
of the Na
i as follows
''Lad
I to distinct
[zeal of its
Irests large
I the peoph
I when they
Ihis life, fo
isettled in
ia commerc
lit is a city
and in tlu
success of
apprehet
cities as be
as well as t
lirooklyn c
^iiitil after
fxleiiding :
fcnd purpo.'
-i^Vdinagc ii
pliaracter, I
cut salutations :
<-• aiii)Iaiulalor\
were speaking
itli iiioic nilt-
niuiis! vSinvl)
iiiaiiv dilR'R'iit
lamb and tlu
ulu) the lainl).
Iiitlicld, wlu'ii
ic-d hat of tliL
Mj,'- ail nii-n to
■ broad brim, I
d.' God bless
s, tlie splendid
It a policeman
onld rather be
ite adopt that
here are three
All this scene
and best world
er knew. My
;. This is the
• mnch of the
•liurch had its
1 the story of
.11 these years
most part tin-
e here present
l)on the pastor
inspiration lor
entire natnre,
md and heart
accomplished.
ed down by a
white throne,
ly poised that
md down the
IVell, to-nij,dit
5 of nierc\- on
f benediction,
d now let the
• homes, yonr
ice applauded
11 and endear-
TIIK WORLD AS SlCHX To-DAV.
The services of the fnst d..\ ..f eeUbrali,,
41
ri- < ).K.en of Sheba," b„t it u." ^T ^""■"""'"'' ' •- '''' "''^"'"^ ''''""« "'^
marcli from
dis]aTSed, S(
tlieir allectionate esteem for the niiivers.illv 1
leloNid pastor.
SECOND DAV OF THE CELEBRATION.
Christendon, wanted a v..iee in this sevicvfV ' ' ,' '" "'"' "''>' '"'^ '"'"
the occasion was thereA.re T hl^l^ ^U;, t"::;;j;^'r''^ "i^ ^"■" T'''^^^ ''''
aeconlin^Iy n.ade an international obse vance Jf h^sUve mn vers ' "' mI ""•"•^ "''
by presence, speech and letters, were fron. all p .rts t u .' ' '""' ^';^' I'=":^'-I>^'"t^
won,en^ thankAU A.r the opportnnity to olTer' th!^;!! r ZtZ:^:^;:::^:!'^
sermonizes to people of everv civilized land pHaclKi ulu, c\ci> week
e ;«;: 1^^^^:,:;^ t^s'iir ^7;^.:;, '^;::'z:i n r'l ■•"-' "^- •"=
si'i-ixit oi- (;i:m:r,vi. tkacv.
I to distinction, an.l not the leist of l7„. it rl^ r , 1"" ""■"■*'>" I""" '"•-"»■ t-'lainis
Ires ,ar„o,; ' ^^ i ,„' So „ t - ar,7 H,'™'" u"™,,' wi' 'T', "■%''""'= "^ ""•"^'>"
l.i. "feforl,cl,cr„rworse»Ion;r,; ,'■„." v.;','"?;' '"'" ""■ ir"'""'
cities as becan.se of the deeJr ho Irl nf 1 , ' poptdation exceeds tiiat of other
as well as the exceptional abltvndd ^''V' "''f f ''^^''"'^^'-■^ "P"" ^he life of the people
J^rooklvn does nor^pone \; l .' >" J f "'""'"'"'" ''''' ''^^^"' '''"^''' ^''^''^ P-^P^^-^-
i-til after thev L" oC b ^IT "^ "" ""' ''" ""'''^'^^ "' '^'^ «^^''^^ -''^->- ^' -'--
^xtendin,,tothe,nn'r;ifetir ord" ""'"' '" their ,.,od work bv
,„., .,...r._ . ..." ^''^'' "^'^^""^ ^^o'fl'' *>f praise and enconraKement. Snch is the object
'enty-fifth anniversarv of tlu^ ivr-t.-^,.nK. ,.f t^_
Brook b
araeter, bnt this evening the celebration tak'
:es a
lionoi
wider
•d itself by a celebration, local
scope. It 1
in
)ecomcs national and
TIIK KARTir r.IRDI.KD.
42
lu-rc havo hcc, ,v,..l tl.c w,.rl,I over. X. ,,.,"/; .^ ':'•''' '"r "''"'""^ ''^'*-'""
l.as been so ucnualN lu.ani a,„l so ui.ldv t ' T^ ^ V^ ' '" "' "':/""^-
fvcrv UTck in .m<mv than tliuv tlionsuul , i r, , , '•'""''«'• "'^ ^'-''•■"-.ns arc puhlislu.,!
States fro„, Main, tn Tcvas. ,., IV . NV v V U . ^ P ' ^"•.^^- "'■;'"^'«^' i" the Unite,!
-';h:'h:i';:;::;a:;;:^.;i;.;;::^
tl.is has been so noi f^r!,: ' , X .i .ir:;;;" '-•r.-'"- '•'■ .-'P'^. And
connnan.Ied in his iifetinu. so^ivat an mliu ',,''"'' '" ^''r-^'"-''''^ Instorv ever
tins nun teaches what the woHd .t ';;",: r^"' ^T*''"^ '■""''' '^ «--' ''-^
This is the secret of the inllnence which o ^ ^i. "^^n:::'^:^ T '" '7^' '' '''""■
IH' speaks a lan^u:.,e that finds a response in e^■ernn, ":,.', 'T""''';^,'"^ T'""^'
an.l strc.noth of that inrtnence are att ste.l h^ , w i , I n ' "'"'"' '""' ''^••^^''
I.-r to-ni,ht tron, n,en of worth not . U^^^Zi^Uat 'TT. '"'" "^ ^''^•"
whose esteen, an.l friendship are a ^■ah,ed p.-sse^. :: d ; ^ e If ""'"• """
to wn, then,. Manv s„ch ,nen have cotni here ,0 d^ h ^ nZ^'T'^ ^n""""
come in l)erson. take inrt in ihi< r^,.l,.K...f; 1 V """""^- "t"<-'iN wlio could not
A.non. tiLn are Senat,!;: ;;Kri::.'s;^:;; ;:,;:; ':?^ 7^-^ c,>„«ratn,ations.
all over the world the hishons of ,, , ' '''"' ''^ '''^ '^^''^^■^' ^■'^'W^
A.ren,ost anu,„, tl,;.! a ; n ;^ ""' '""f , """ ""''''''''' '^"■''^' -"'
o.- years and of honors J nut el ^^ '.'■"""'.='"'' ^'^'^^^'^ ""Iv '-ecently retired Adl
^^lacistone. Upon snch n-e! i::;::;:^!;;;^ 'or;,.:;:;:; .^^.^'r rf "■• ""''r '■■
felt. It has been difTnsed over ill In„1 ■ ,„ 1 ^'"^ |^'iciiin,crs ,,1 Dr. J alniajje made itself
.. I- -,c,K,, .„. f,;;,,'.,",;,::,',',,!;;; : ';;:'■:■;';,; ,,tsy'"',v;' ."-^ '", ",""'™'"-
K.,„U. a„,l .li,vct ,lK. air.irs „f nations ,,. „-.ll as , 1 ,m ,U V ''" 'T'""' "'"* "■'"'
■' I«.«crfnl inslnnncnl lor - I u ;. , l"">il>l>st cHimi. Slid, an infln™co is
from the stiai.,d,t path of public iiUe-ritv in f^ '"'""'" "" cliver^re„ce
when the wicke<liKss is so„ , t,, e In " Paltcr with wickedness, even
rather than personal i , it cl« ^Tu 7 T T""' ''''' ^''^' ^'""^■"^ '■^ I-'i^ical
".orals and hoi.estv in pldtS^^'in ,•;'''• "'''V''^' ^'""''' "''"^^ ^''^ -"^ -^'^ <>'
has been the root of m.!;;; ];:^l j! „ ^ ;tn\h r th T"' " "" 'T ^T "■>■ ^^•'■^^"
:«tt^::i:i:;L;r:;:i:-:^^^
A .an Who is not honest mav sinlilL .^"^^^r-lr:;!;;:;:— ^^^^^^
s»). W'liili Di,
■rinoiis (li'lixfi. d
or of any imu.,
IS art- |)iii)lislic'(l
wliicli riaclics
■ in the United
.'h tile sernioiK
:. 'I'lu- Niiiiv. ;
I and in India,
nan lanjL,Mia<,;vs.
Ill live nn'llions
f i)e()i)Ie. And
il's liistoix (.'vti-
I be «i\en tliat
.■ souls of men.
ii.t( Iiis message
(Itli and duptli
i lliat we sliall
li<-- world, men
tunate enoiij^rl,
who eoidd not
)nj,'ratidati()ns.
of distinction
^n lands, and
tly retired fnll
1, William ]•..
;je made itsell
of hiinianitv.
ed those who
in influence is
at there is no
lot to control
? is a broader
:'nce for j^ood
rs. And l)\
an beliewrs.
e as it onj,du
net of ])nldic
J diverireucf
edness, even
e is i)olitical
^anie code of
lieory wliicli
)f morals in
lis. A man
throug-hout.
itteu all thr
THH WORLD AS 8HKN TO DAY. ^3
the a,hninistratiou of ,.nl a,^^ ^n^^Tu'T^'ir^'T ^""'"^' '''''^'' ^"«''«-' '"
. the cn„„„„„itv and t. the wel re o the St , 'T'' '"'T'"^''' '"'"' '" "'^' '•'■■' "^
State it ,s too often condoned ai; ^ ten To'o;;e r^l" " ''•"""■^^^> ^'^'""^^ '"^
'l-Uies of Christian citizenship in this , : .. , .. this error is o„e ot the fo.vn.ost
t recognition of this A.ct and t . h .Z ^ 2 f"' , "•""V'^- ^ T' '' '^" ' '-"--• '"
Christian teacher, in nnhHc as we 1 , i H / r T '" "'^^ '''■^^''""W^' •''" ''is .bUv as a
(General Trac> .1 lon.:.:^ j' 'u^m' Im Tv' 7 T'''1 '''' "-"^"'•"
n.louistic strain, after which Hon. Pat iek Wi '„ .''sl''^' t'' ^'''''^' '"' ^' ""'''^''•'>-
.idivered a most elo.,nent tribute which rmuhH, , ' •^^"'""' '•'"" ''''''^^^^>
il-.lnx, Con,re.su,in .rom Ih-ooUu": d X h imS^m ^"•'r'"^^'' ''""• ■''-''" ^•
-fcrences. and also with nnstinted" p;aise^o , V " t 'u;''"'"' l"'"' '•'"!^ ^^'''^
letters, telej,rrams and cableLnan.s were n-ul Tr . , '-""''M^.-l H'^' c..uelns„,n of wjiieh
,.reat admiration for the sntj , is " 1, ''l '''"'''"'■^ *'* '"••■^""^- ='" -^l'>-ivc of
tl.ose who thus participat d ,i in ■■'"' "'."^ -t-'ational reception. .\mon,
^-^con ,,f London Can n. WieXec n, "'■'i'"'''^""" "•-•^' ^'■■- < •■'a-istone, the Areh-
tiK' Hisbopof London, the (i : ^i^ '^^^ll- ^"''"r'' ?' '^"*;""''-^"« '''hain Davidson,
IVtersbur. ex-President Harrison SV or I ,„ S ' !' •'"'''" ""'"'■■^'^''v. of St.
fact (Governors of nearly all tlu St te nf;; ' 7"'"^ ^'^■'^'"'-■- -<' i"
pn'.ninent ministers of vario.is deno mi .'u "! "" '" '''^' ''"■'"' '^^'-^^^ ^^^•"•'tc,
Schofield, conin,anderof^r::^„t:' ■ ^ ;:; 'r:: ;- :;;,/';>■ ^"i-- ^!-'^ <-K.ral
iM the various walks of life. '''"'' '""^ '■■""' <l'^tin«uished persons
Aiuoufr the hundred or more letters -nul ,.,11
were read, were the following. : cablegrams containn.^ congratulations that
Letter from Herbert Gladstone, Dollis Hill, N. W. :
-'^''•' <'l"'l«tonf, bciuK sonuwhat out of health has to rc-stri,'. l,i
'H' uesTes ,„e to say for hi„, that Dr. Taln,a«. alw -s hllJs " . '"V""^'-''!'""''''"'-- •-"■ "■>"''' .s ,,„ssihlc., l,„t
".tcrc-st the occasions when he has had the pWsure o;^:;,!;;;^^;^;: T^n!;::; "'" '""^ '" ^^""^""-- "■^" '•-"
Cablejrram from Loudon
IIliRUURT Ul,ADSXONK.
y»», 'S,:;r ts;^;.-;:;;;;;,;? "™'"'-- -^ >p'".™ »-,„. ,„, ,„„ ,„„ ,„„,^.„,^
AkCHUHACO.N (II- I.dXIloN,
Ca.von \Vu.iikri.{)rci:,
'1'haix Davuison,
I'KOKICSSOR Sl.MI'SON,
JouN I.onii,
lilSHOl- ()!.• I,()M,„v
utter f,„,„ Earl of Aberdeen, Goven,„r<ie„cral of Can.n.b, „tt„„,, ■
44 THE EARTH GIRDLED.
Russian cal)Io,<,naiii from Couul Andre IJoljiinskox , St. Pctcrsburjj, Russia:
I[(.-arU"i;lt roiitiraliilalioiis from ),'r,itrftilly rciiR'HilHTinj,' Russian fricnils.
Li'Un- tVoin rnik'd States .Senator Jolin Slievnian :
V..ur kill,! iiivilatic.ii in ],vU-M „( y„iii- i',,ii!mittcc thai I attcii,! Ur. rccqUiou lo bo k'udcrcl U, Rev T
DfW 111 Talina«(.', D.I)., 1,1,. I).. „ii Ur. .oiiipk'ti.ni „[ Uw UwMy-MXh vcar of Iiis pastoialo in lirooklvn is ri'mvcd
TlR-n- IS i,„ „iR- l„r wlinm 1 w„ul,l „,orc clKxTfiilly oxpro.ss my siiicuiv iVKur.l aii.l iiiv IrmMv apnrcdalion <,f lii.s
\voii,k.rhil ability than Mr. TabnaKo. I have boanl biiu an,! boanl of biiii for so iiianv voa'rs, aii.l have read .so
many ol bis sirinons tliat I bold bim in my estimation as tbu K'li'atest iircaolicT of our tiilie \ll this and imich
more- I couM say lor bim if I wore at liberty to attend, but I fool tb.at my ollioial duties hero will not permit me to
leave at a time when so many intorosls are involved in tlio loKislatioii of Coiigro.ss.
Tliankiufi \()ii for your kind invitation, I am,
Very truly yours,
Letter from William Walter Phelps, e.\-Ministcr to Germany, Hot Springs, Va. :
I shall not 1)0 well enoiiKb to aeeopt the invitation, of whioli I wouM Kladiv avail nivself to testify that an
acquaintance of a score of years, renewed at li.,me and abroad, in public aiul 'private, lias only increased n.v
admiration lor the amount ol patriotic, social an,l religious work which that impetuous, unselfi.sh and gifted iiiau
Dr. lalmage, has done. '
Letter from Governor McKinlev :
I feel honored by the invitation you have sent me to take part in the reception to be tendered to the Rev
Dr. ralniage m celebration ot the twentv -fifth year of his j.astorate at the Hrooklvn Tabernacle. While it is
impossable lor me to be present. I take occasion to give expression to the great respect and esteem in which I
hold I )r ralniage. 1 he .American people, irro.spoctive of .leiiominational difTerences, have a pride in the ability
and public .services of Dr. lalmage. His inHuence for goo.l, in the direction of public sentiment, extends far
beyond his own churcli and bis own congregation; it is felt all over our country, and even beyond the seaa
Please convey to the Doctor my regards and congratulations. Very truly yours,
Tlie Governor of Virj^inia, Hon. Clias. T. O'Ferrall, wrote:
Among the clergy of .\nierica be is the foremost man of the ago, ami his innuence is felt .-it almost every
Christian lireside. while bis scholarly ability and oI,Kiuoiice have won him a world-wide reputation The coinpli'-
meiit to be conferred upon him is a well-merited one, .and is, after all, but another laurel .-.d.led to the honors of i
long aiul useful life.
The Governor of Wyomin.c;-, Hon. John IC. O.sborn, wrote :
Xo name stands higher in the galaxy of groat .-Vmerican names than that of Dr. Talmage No man h is
done more for the lasting benefit of the race than ho, and no one has done more for the dis.semination of the
doctrine of the fatlierlioo,l of Cod and the brotherhood of man, the beautiful religion of the Carpenter of Nazareth
than be. and there is. I think, no true .American eiti«.„ l>iit feels a wave of admiration and love swell in his breast
at the mention of the great teacher of the Urooklvii Tabernacle.
a :
iidercil to Rev. T.
oklyii is ri't-civc'd.
ppruciation of his
aiul have ruad so
Ul this and much
not permit uie to
fs, \'a. :
to testify that an
Illy increased my
I and gifted man,
lered to the Rev.
cle. While it is
steem in which I
ide in the ability
lent, extends far
beyond the seaa
THK WORLD AS SHKX TO-DAY
IvOtter from Joscpli Parker :
45
I liaveso ollen exprissed my ai)i)ririation of 1)1- Tahni-c th It r f,.,.l it I i ■, i,
of L■ulo^'v, even ii view of tlie iini.e. di>,L^ cel,.1,r ,li , / ■ , •■' ''""'-' "^'^■'"^'^^ '" •"''' ""e xvonl
U, ioin others in sen.ling a .• L« n ' o," ; ^ i ; / VuVr' V "f "'"■■— •^•- ' "-- '-" -ked
ev;„t which is so intensclv perianal In2; iv" h , ' . ! " ""' "" ' '" " ""' "'' '' """""'' '" '-"«"—« -■•
..-. Tahna«c stands i„ u.y cLteen. absoU ^ v : :\ \' ^ ' ■ ' the' cl ri 'Ii ' '"\' 'rT'^r' '"''""' '"" '•'"^■>-'
cerlain knowledge that not onlv is his nnnislr L^ i, alve a v^ n T^^'' " '""r' '' "' "'"''" '">'
o.MvertinK and elevating' power.' Tl.is is of c nrs u >i , . i ''^V'^ '"" "'"' '' .-mries with it
do notlnn^ bat the baaJ justice io^l^^l^t.^lTu'^lf''^^^^^ ^""' '
.association with ,.r. TahnaKi .s n.ost disc„„r" ,„'/'' ,r'"'-'^ 'f'"'"'"""-^' ■"■•""'""« ^"^- '-^•
stan.l back iron, him and'each sav, '"T to^ m/ \^ ^''"''T 7""'^ a-ebler nerve. We can only
gratitude, on the occasion of his Silver Wedding Jhtldi^h in. l:^^^^^^ '"• '"" "'"' ^"""'''^'■^^' "'"^
Tlic Governor of Midiioaii, Hon. Jolm P. Rich, wrote:
.,»,i:;;!™;;,r;;rs";:«:ni;'"r:,:;;,;;;"t":i;;;j:;;::!'' '-' "- >-' '"-"-"- ^ - '■- ■»■>
United vStatcs Senator Jame.s K. Jone.s wrote :
Tlie results of his great labors will be felt to the li>,i <v II. ,M r i , ■
through all the AUure as it is loved by tlK>ie wtolnoj'hl,;;- i^!;!^ "' '"''"'''■' '"""' ^""' '^ ""- -" '- "™1
Bi.shop John R Hur.st wrote:
Hi.sliop Jolin M. Vincent wrote :
I njoice in all successes which crown Dr. Tabnage, the brilliant and loval An.erican preacher
J.ansni.o;. At the conchi.s.on of the latter'.s ren.ark.s Oen. Tracy called for T)r T.l^'
who responded to the ovation tendered to hin. a.s follows : ''""^^'
1 ,
at almost evcri-
111. The coiiijili
) the honors of a
c. No man h.is
-'ininatioii of the
Iter of Nazaretli,
/ell ill his lirea l
46
THE EARTH GIRDLED.
tlic mind of tliis aurlience I do not know. The most vivid on mv mind is an impression
tliat has no reference lo myself at all. We have been told that relij;ion is a weak thinj^, fit
for the weak riiind, and an obsolete affair belon<,nn<:^ to the aj^es of superstition. I point to
the j^nonp of illnstrioiis men on this platform to prove that the l)rain, the learning, the
clocinence, the splendid manhood of America is on the side of Jesns Christ. If relij^ion
had been a sham, these are the men who would iiavc found it out. We liave in this land
and on this platform the man who, after fillino^ tlie office of Secretarv of the United States,
and belonoiiior to two Presidential Cabinets, and pleadino in the most important cases that
ever came before jud<4e or jury, stands now a cond)inatit)n of Edmund Hurke and Daniel
Webster — I mean William M. Kvarts. We have been led to-nioht in ])raver bv the John
]\Iiltou of the American pulpit, like the ime after whom I call iiim, his e\e-si<rht blasted
by e.xce.ss of vision, turnin,u^ aside from the United States Senate to prav for us at the tinu
when the Senate most needs his prayers to help them in the stnijro;le with the Wilson bill.
Geor<,na sends to us its distin<>;uished citizen, the achievements of his <jreat editorial iieu
now to be eclipsed by his mi<jhty mission in the United States vSenate. Henry W. Gradx
and vSenator Co](niit have passed away, but, thank (iod, we have in their place Hon. Patrick
Walsh. On this platform we have a member of another branch of the national Iej;islature,
but whether he is on the way to gubernatorial or ])residential chair I know not, but this I
do know : He is our joy and our pride, Hon. Jose])!) C. Hendri.x. But the committee of
reception does full honor to my own ])rofession ; and so thev invited to this platform a
minister of the <;osi)el who after rousin,<:^ the cities of the west with his superb work now
stands in Xew York Sabbath by vSabbath telling- the sweetest story that was ever told,
as he only can tell it — Dr. Charles L. Thompson. P.oston also must be heard from,
and Boston is here in the pastor of the most liistori^-d pulpit in that citv, the I'ark
Con,L;re,<;ational — my friend of many \ears, the Rev. Dr. Lansing. .\ud there is here
Murat Halstead, our j^reat editor, and one of the <;;randest acqtii.sitions P)rooklvn has ever
had. Oh, I forgot that this meetinir somewhat refers to myself, and that makes me fee!
a little weaker than I ever felt before. .\ hundred tlnnisaud thanks. I suppose I may as
well make it a million."
Dr. Georj^e W. Hethune, once a .threat preacher on P.rooklyn Heij^hts, was stopping over
ni^dit at a Pennsylvania farm-house. In the mornin<j the Doctor sat at the breakfast table
alone, for the good housewife felt that was the best way to honor him. And when the
buckwheat cakes were ])ut upon his plate the good woman stood b\- him with the molasses
cup to ]iour the sweetness on his cakes, and she said to him, ' How will von take this
molasses on these cakes? Will yon take it crinkle-crankle or all in a puddle?' To-night
to me the sweetness has come in the latter way, and all in a puddle. This is the supreme
hour of my life. Many enu)tions stir my .soul, but neither the Brooklyn City reception last
night nor the national and international reception to-night, so far as I know my own heart,
has created in me one feeling of exultation or pride. It has only stirred in me a profound
wish and prayer that I might hereafter prove my.self worthy of all this kindness. Up till
forty years of age a man may have ambition for him.self, but for the most part after that it
is ambition for his children ; and I shall hand over to my children in everv form that I can
preserve the memories of last night and to-night. I shall tell them never to forget the men who
stood on this platform and when the sons of the.se men come on the stage of action, to .seek
to cheer them as unich as their fathers iiave cheered nic. The fact is, that to all of us litV
is a struggle. P>y kind tluMights and kind words and kind deeds, let us k.elp each other o:'.
the way and then may we all meet coming up from north and .south and east and west,
from b
awaitii
meetin
handkt
Tl
hours t
retire.
Tl
Spurge
sermon
I si
I liad not
with llu-i.
I ai
wliicli so:
use the o
Ma;
sllDllld III
(;i)(l will
air
no fatigi
attested
thou.sanc
liands ar
The
Song, "
coueludi
At
might h
audience
Talmage
1 ail impression
weak tlnii<^-, fit
on. I point to
le lcaniin<^, tlu-
St. If reli<;ion
ive in this land
United States,
rtant cases that
ke and Daniel
-T In- tlie Joliii
e-si(>;lit blasted
ns at the tinu
he Wilson 1)111.
t editorial ]ieii
enr\- W. (iiady
e Mon. Patrick
nal le<.;islatnre,
not, but this 1
coinniittee of
this platform a
)erb work now
was e\-er told,
e heard from,
city, the Park
I there is here
)klyn has ever
makes me fee!
ppose I ma\- as
i stoppiiio- over
break fa.st table
\ik1 when the
1 the niola.sses
you take this
e?' To-nij^lu
s the supreme
reception last
my own heart,
me a profoniid
ne.s,s. Up till
rt after tliat it
Drill that I can
.>t the men who
action, to .seek
) all of us life
eacli other (■;•
and west, airl
THE WORLD AS SEEN T()-I)AV. 47
from both sides of the .sea, in our I'-ather's house, where .so many of our loved ones are now
awaitin.i; our arrival. Myself havin^r thanked the .<;enllemen wl'io have taken part in this
meetins-. J ask this audience, when I shall jrive them the si<,rnal, to rise and take out their
handkerchiefs and wave them and .^ive three cheers for the illustrious }r„t..sts of the eveninc,^"
The audience was disiiii.s.sed with benedictions, but it was not until the earlv inornhijr
hours that the Tabernacle was entirely emplied and Dr. Taln.age was linallv permitted to
retire.
The whole meetin,^- .seemed an echo of the appreciation expressed bv Rev. Charles H.
Spuii^eon, of London, when he wrote to Doctor Talma<;e on the receipt of a book of
sermons twenty-three \ears a<,^o :
I shall Krcally prize the volume you have sent me. The discourses I have read before l)ut f,om the uiver
I had not ere this received special KreeluiK. Fellou-soldicr, I return vour salutation most heartilv The I .ird is
wilh tlue, Ui,m mi.uhty man of valour ! So may He ever be wiUi thee tiH the campai-^u elo.ses with victorv
I am ludee.! Klad ol your voice. It cheers me iiUeusely. Vou love the Kospel and believe in son„iln,nr
wliich some preachers hardly do. I feel sure you «ill -ive us a full Puritanic IheoIoKv. There are those about who
use the old labels, but the articles are not the same.
May the lA)rd win armies of s..nls to Je.sus by you. I am astoni.shed when (w.d blesses ,ur but somelu.w I
should not be ,so much .surprised if He ble.s.se,l you. In-Urd I see much to admire in vour speech ami feel that
tiod will bless It. U shall be as He wills Yours most heartily. . i .
The meetuio .seemed also an echo of the appreciation expressed bv Canon Wilberforce
-hen introdncin.o; Dr. Talmaoe, in 1.S79, to an audience in Southampton, Kn-Iaud The
Canon remarked : " I used to read Doctor Talmaoe's sermons, but I have ceased to do so,
because the teniiitation to reproduce them is too stroiio."
The Silver Jubilee, the ma-nificent celebration, the splendid tribute, the inter-
national cominemoration of the twenty-fifth year of Dr. Talma-e's Ihonkhu past<,rate
was concln.led with the Sabbath noon service, Mav 13, i,S94. The immense temple'
reared with sacrifices and dedicated with reverence, was packed with j^eople who
came with ea-erne.ss and afTection to hear the farewell sermon of the beloved preacher
who was to start on the morrow for a tour aroi ud the world. Kverv face in that
tremendous audience was a-low with ble.ssin-s, vet .sorrow at the earlv partiii- showed
111 every eye. Dr. Talma-e had been overwhelmed with three davs of jubilation, wherein
he had been made the central fi-u,e of an outpourin,^- of ciiristendom such as no
other minister 111 the world's history had ever provoked or received. I!ut he manifested
no fatioue, his .spirit was even more buoyant under the .stimulus of the ovations that
atte.sted the appreci.ition and love in which he is held bv Christians of cverv land Six
thousand people attended this last service, and twentv-five infants were bapti/ed In- his
hands and blessed by his benediction.
The subject of his discourse was " A Cheerful Church," and his text was from Solomon's
SonK^ "Behold thou art fair, my love," which he treated in a most eloquent manner
concludiu- with such feelin- words as to liis -oiii- awav that tears Kdisteiied in every eve'
At the conclu.sion of the .sermon Dr. Talmaoe invited everv one forward that thev
^misht have a farewell international handshake, which iiearlv all persons in the vast
[audience acccpte.l, then the benediction was pronounced and while the oroauist plavcd the
: 1 alinage Jubilee March the great gathering was dismi.ssed.
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THH EARTH OIRDLKD.
Cod's ])i()vi(l(.'iK'(.' was ])L'rlia])S ir-vlt inoiv (li>liiiclly iiuuiifcsled than on this occasion,
for when less lliau twcnt\ ]kisous wcic still in the Tabernacle, Iinj^erinj>; to sjteak a last
word with their pastor, Mrs. Talnia^e discovered a ton,i,Mie of flame Icapini;- from the
to]) of till- or<;aii upon which Prof. I'rown was still i)layin,i^ his ".Silver Jubilee March.""
vSni)])ose the fire had broken oit a few minntes sooner, when the vast anditoriinn was
choked with human bein.^s ! Hearts are sickened by the very tIion,<;ht.
When Dr. Talmn^e was
ajjpealed to by his friends
to run for his lite, he
showed no excitement, but
turned into his study to -vl
his hat just as several of the
larjre false piix\s of the jjfreal
ortjan fell with a mii^htv
crash ni)on the \'ery sjiol
where he had a moment
before l)een standin,^-. l>y
another door he rejoined his
family, at the sij^ht of whom
he exclaimed, " Thank (iod
all are saved, ij.it the church
is certaiidy i, st."" Hut hi'
was still reltictant to lea\e
the Tabernacle, esteennm;
that he mi<,dit be of service
to assist some one who had
not yet escaped, thonj>'h,
thanks be to God, the now
fiery tem])le contained no
lini^erin,n one. Dnriny- tlii--
inter\'al the flam'irj^ demons
were workinj^ a swift de-
struction, and spreadin.i,'^
with inconceivable rapiditv .
They cauj^^ht the silver jubi-
lee bunting- and whirled it
aloft as if it had been made
of tissue paper. Thc\- fast-
ened their teeth of flame
upon the ceilin<»' so riclilv
decorated and substantial lookinj;-, but which, made of papier mache, was as inflammable
as if it had been saturated with kefosene. A cloud of smoke, black as the wrath of the
j^nuls, collected about the i^reat and beantifnl dome and slowK- descended to the floor, maskiiii,^
the glorious cathedral windows, shnttin.o- out the snnli.yht which had for the last time lit up
the cheerful interior of this almost cathedral church, and chokinji^ those who were still inside.
And then with a sudden burst of venom, and with, the jinj^le, far from jiierry, of brokt u
glass, it burst its way out throuj^h roof and window and sent a black and noisome coluniii
MV TRAVEUNC, COMPANION IN Tin'. JOIRNKV KOCNI) THp; WORM).
Ki;V. I'KANK 111; WITT TAI.MACI-,.
/y
liis ()cca>i()ii,
^]1eak a last
ii<;' fioiii iIr-
ik'C March."
I i tori u 111 was
ralma,t;(.' was
• liis friends
lis life, lie
■itciiR'ut, but
study to ,i;^l
everai of the
^ of t'lie fi^real
li a iiiiy^litx
le very spul
a inoiiiciit
andint;-. By
? rejoined his
,i;lit of whom
' Thank C.nd
it the church
•it." lint he
ant to lea\f
s, esteeiiiiu!;
be of ser\ici-
one who liad
)ed, though,
iod, the now
oiitaiiied no
Durint;- thi--
11. 'nti; demons
a swift de-
1 sjoreadini,^
iblerapiditv .
ic silver jubi-
id whirled it
d been made
, Thex- fast-
'tli of flame
ii(^- .so richlv
inflammable
wrath of the
oor, inaskin;.,^
it time lit u])
c still inside.
>', of broki n
ionie colnnni
THE WORLD AS SKEN TO-DAY.
49
power 'o\tr™e::v:;::.':!;.TSi',;';:'r' "'-;•, '-it'-^- ■■'■' -' ■"-'"■>■ """ '"—■
...1.1 ,o il ,,rovc.d. WI..-U tl,c. T.b™, , I ^^^^ ' I'oon.M,,l„„„.e,l," w.,s ll.ccy ;
accc.s»i„„ to ,l,e pyre a„<l with tl, Xcre. '• ,' „, ""l ' """' """ >■""""•■ ''"»""■ »"
hrc crack,., .i.^' ,,cc a..„ w,.c.,.,:rr:.. i' Hiu T::,.;:";;'if ' ;;" "'^,"™"""'
Suiiiintifit.l(l Church,
T()t.il
But while the loss of proper
iiiense, thcinks be to God it was
l)ani«l In- any destruction of life,
injury to any one, tliou
were numerous.
Dr. Talnias;e has beei
ttuiate in respect to his churches,
been both pursued and persecuted
rics of fire, as the follow-
ing brief record of liis
losses will show :
lu 1869 Dr. Tal-
nuao-e received, while a
pastor in Philadelphia,
a "call" from three
churches, one in San
Francisco, another in
Chica,t(o and the third
in Brooklyn. After due
consideration he selected
Brooklyn as his future
field of labor. At that
the bl n'liredlfi''''^''"?"/'^" '"°''^ ''''^' '"--^ ^^'^^°'^ ^'^^''^ '-^"^1 '^^fore a ^■ear had passed
-•^c^ed a',d tW too ^'"f ■';" ^'7^' '-^ "^^^ Tabernacle of corrugated sheet iron was
wa..;;l t':b;.r^^r^^^^ --- - wor.
whenthf;:^L-^^^^
irrcfatinii \A;u(/>ti,.i™ 4.1, n . '^ '"'.I ^"^1 \ ii-c iir lonnci nis "rest con-
vTcZtlX^^^ ""'''' ''^^ '''' '''''■ ^^^-^ ^Oliver at the%uins of
. ^mircli ni the Chicago fire, he was animated with new vigor, and there by the
THE GREAT nROOKLV-V TABERNACLE BI:F0RE THIC EIRE.
fi!i
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t
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50
THK KARTM GIRDLKD.
Ijlaziii,!,' tiiiil)ers, lie told liis friL-iuls that the cliurcli just htinicd had never bten lar<,'e
eiuiui^li, and that, by (lod's proNideiiee, they would at oiiee erect another on the ruins,
rians were inunediatel\- drawn for another, wliicli, when completed, jjroved to he what at
that time was one of tile lar<,ast I'r testant edifices in America. It was a splendid, si)acions
(lothic i)ili' — cathedral-like al)o\e and theatre-like in the main Ixidy, with a sea! Iul; capacity
of from 5' II" I to (■)()()(), accord ill!:;- to the ])acked condition of the aisles and space around the
jiulpit, where extra seats accommodated looo more on sjjccial jubilee occasions. This
new eliureh, which .soon had world-wide fime, was dedicated on January 22, 1S74. It soon
became one of the chief churches of the country, and the centre of evaii,t;elical activity in
I5rookl\n. Coi)ies of the sermons delivered in it were sent out l)roadcast 1)\- a special
syndicate arraii.t^enient, and translated into French, Cermaii, Italian, Swedish and Ru.ssiau.
Hut this <j^reat elinrch, like its predece.s.sor, was doomed to burn. It went up in smoke and
ashes on Octc^ber 13, 1SS9,
A.tjain the fire broke out on a Sunday niorniii,tj. Only four blackened walls <(reeted
the .sorrowin.L^ con<;Te,i;ation. All was lost — the <,Mand orj^aii, the collectitm of choice music
and the bi,>;- librar\-. l-roin his bed-room window Dr. Talma.i^re .saw the wild spectacle, " the
destruction of the temple of his heart and .soul, wherein all his earthly hopes were centred."
Hut, as he .said in speakins,'- of it, neither he nor his jieople were disiiia\ed at this new and
.still <;reater calamitx. Once n^iun skillful architects were a.sked to prepare plans for a r.ew
Tabernacle, lari^er and more nia},niificent than cither of the other churches.
On the morniii.i;- of October 2S, 1.S90, <;round was broken at the northeast corner of
Clinton and Oreeiie avenues, Hrooklyn. Work was pushed with a will, and by the followin<;
spriii.t; the l)uilclin,<,r was ready for worshipers. It was formally opened by Dr. Talmaj^e on
his return from his famous journe\- to the Holy I^and, in May of that year, 1S91. The
architects were J. H. Snook iS: Sons, of Brooklyn, who were credited witb accomplishiiii^ the
remarkaljle task of completinij;- the vast edifice on time. It was this church that burned
May 13, 1S94. It was considered the largest Protestant church in .\merica, and would seat
50UO persons comfortabl}-. On e.xtra occasions, by throwing open the doors leading into
the Sunday-school annex, 2000 more could find .seats in full view and within hearin<:^ of the
preacher. It was called the most imposing chnrcli structure in Brooklyn, and it cost
$350,000.
The style of architecture was Xoriiian, .solid, massive and imposing, of rich, dark,
nmber-colored granite, with facings of Lake Superior brownstone. The striking character-
istics of the exterior were a liigh tower at the corner and two gables on each facade, with
small towers at the extreme ends of each facade. The corner tower went up 160 feet high
from the ground to the finials. The church's general form was square, but over the two
principal entrances was a rounded projection which was carried up two stories. The interior
was in the form of an amphitheatre. There were two g;'.lleries, and on the Waverlv
avenue side a comnuxlious lecture-room and reading-room. On each side of the main
auditorium were I'ible and class-rooms, .separated from the main room by sliding doors that
could be pushed aside on special occa.sions, making one great room. There were also two
large reception-rooms near the lob1)ies, for the exclusive use of strangers and visitors. The
lobbies and passageways were spacious — none le.-s than eight feet wide. There were no
winding staircases. The idea wa.s to liave the church easy of entrance and egre.ss. It has
been specially arranged to i)revent " choking " in case of a panic by fire, or accidents of
any kind. Klectric lights were used in every part of the structure. The windows were of
cathedral glass, richly stained, and the mncli-praised rose window was considered particularly
"^
bit'ii Inrj^e
the niiiis.
I)L' wliat at
(1, spacious
i,!4 capacity
ivoinul the
)ns. This
|. It soon
activity in
a special
d Russian,
■inioke and
ills sjjrcetcd
(lice music
tacle, " the
J centred."
is new and
> for a new
corner of
; followini^
:dnia<^e on
891. The
lishin.L; tlie
lat Inirned
would seat
ading into
■in<^ of the
nd it cost
icli. dark,
character-
cade, with
) feet hi.uli
.n- the two
lie interior
; Waver 1\-
the main
doors that
e also two
:ors. The
e were no
;s. It has
cidents of
,'s were of
irticularly
THE WORLD AS SEEN TO-DAV
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51
fine. Of the interior it was written that the uph..lsterv in the pews was " in warm cheerful
coo,s ami the preva.hn, elTVct ,in harn.ouy with the fine n,of tin.hers in t eh u
color.) o_i orange and suhdue.l tuUs." I„ everv- respect it was a n.ag.iincent bu 1 .
..r,j,Mnal nt des.gn and a very n.o.lel of adaptation to con<,re,,atioual use; lint it 's
a s unn^mark for the den.ons of pyrotechuy, who, despite its consecration, .J>nZuC
sacul ed.nce, and a«a,u le t Dr. Talnu.oe chnrehless. It is consolen.ent to k ,ow as X ' -
No k newspaper saul the day following the fire: " Klau.es have destroved the Tab nn
ot I),. 1 almao:c, but fire can never destroy the splendor <.f his career " ' •'"^"■''^'^
I)r labnaoe was interviewed in the afternoon of t!ie dav of the fire uid his
ndoniiuible spirit profbund and unswerving faith in (iod.and unchangeable chLc^.ie
o heart are n, a infest n, his answers. Said he : " It is a -n-eat disaster, a ,n-e,a dis s ^
the mercy of Ciod overtowers the disaster." > ^^ <- '^ uisasui, Dut
" Vou wish for my version of the catastroplie ? " he said. " Here it is: At the close of
e church service tins nioruin. I was shakiii,. hands with a , neat multitude of pit
the foot of the pulpit platform. I was about throiioh, and u^nt down the bodv o the
ehurch to speak to my w,fe, who was standing there. She imme.liateh- called iv atte it 01
a fire that was spouting from the top of the altar. When I saw it was 'umle ^^
headway my first impulse was to look around and .see who was there in the cli c T
.nv delight there wei. but about tweiitv. I said to mvselUhere are Uvn tv -1 .
venty-five doors,and every one will escape. I then went over the shouhler <.f 'tl e 1 „
i.lafonnand entered my .study. Then I thought, 'Is it nianlv to run ? ' and co i^Z^^
w,alknig lip ami down the study. I had just made up mv mind to walk a,!
e eiy one had escaped, when a New York friend rushed in and said : 'C.ct o t - t ,
Mr la mage, you must leave at once." We went out thronol, the (Ireeue a enm. dol;
and waked around to the front entrance, from which place I co.dd .see tli f re la". Z
knew that the church was doomed." '>'a/iiig, and
.ve ^'l f' °^ n '■' ■"''" f '?""■' ^"■- '^''^'■"''^•"^ ''^' ^l^^^Pl^- '-^ff^'^ted, and tears came into his
c> es at the ^recollection of that last moment in the monument he luul reared.
\e.s, he repeated "the mercy of Ood overtowers the disa.ster. If this had occurred
alf an hour before it did there would have been the calamitvof the centurv. T " '
least 6000 persons packed into the church and lecture-room, and in the paii c Ji d
1 needs have ensued many would have been trampled under foot. If it 1 aToec -d
.ngi;;^^^^ - r -: ;-if-r td l::z:^.i:^^^z:
:=^i:r- r-;-^— ^^^^ — n of da^er was' ZL
knee.s'." " '''' ''''' "^^'^ ^^"^■'^"^" ^''^-^"^ «^^^ ^'-""M^i the smoke on his hands and
'^
52
Till-: I'.AR'ni (;iRi)M':i).
Wluii ,1-ki.il liis liiKiiA .!> t.) till' (.'aiiM.' 'if ilu' lilt.', hr. 'ralina,i;(.' said: " ICkclricitv
liLMHid a iliiiiKl. 'l':'at is mihk tiling Uial is 'inl\' paill) liariusM.il, anil fM.'!! wlii'U iiriilk'd
hivaks i(> liaMK'». I a.u coiitidtiU tluTi' was a iir'sair.iii,ni.iiK'iil of wires. l'',k'Clrii'il\-
(k'-imv i.(I (lur tilli.r iliinvli, ami I am Cdiilidi-'iil it did this oiiv.
'• Wiiat is tlu- iiKaiiiu-; of tlu' three fuvs whieh have (k'-tnned lirookKii Tahirnaele ?
.\> 1 leave, peiijik' in iiiaiu' lands are diseussin.i^ that (iiiestion. inr tilei^ranis froiii aems^ the
Atlaniie, as well a> fnini main ]>arts<i|' tlii> eountrv. show that tin. Ikrv news had leajied
i.\er\ whither. Three wist stnielures dedieated to Cod and the work oftrvin.i; to make
the World hilter, i^one down, and all tiiis within a lew \ears. The\ were well imilt as to
]ierm,nuiK\' and dnrahilitv. .\11 tin talk ahont these hnildini^s as mere tire-traps is the
usual eant, lor there is as iiuieh .ejular eant as religions eaut. IIa\e nou heard in the last
CRAM) CA.NON Ol' ".V.V. C( II.( )KAIM).
fortv years of any cliureli, or any hall, or any theatre which, after destruction, was not
called a fn-e-tra])? That charije always makes a livel\- openin.t,' for an\ deserii)tion of a fire.
There have been no better structures, secular or reli<.iious, put up in the last twenty-five
years than the three I>rooklyn Taljeruacles, and the modes of ei,ness from them so ample
that the thousands of worshipers assend)le(l in any of them could l)e put safely on the
street in>ide of five niinute.s. The fact is that there is nothins,- in this world incombustible.
When the <.,neat Chica.no and Boston fires took place they burned up stone and iron. The
human race will '^o on building; inconsiuuable churches, and inconsumable banks, and
inconsumable storehouses, and inconsumable cities, and then all will be consumed in tlie
world's last fire.
Huilders, who had lari^e experience and established reputation, pronounced the
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4
Brooklyn Tabernacles perfect structures. But what is tl
le meaninjf of the three fires
ICIfctiicity
R'li hridli'il
l'',lfcli icily
abi'Viiafk' ?
;uT(i» till'
lad ItMpi'd
<; to make
built a> to
•aps i> till'
in till- last
, was not
n of a fne.
wenty-fhc
1 so anipk-
'1\- on tlu'
nibustihk'.
ron. The
anks, and
iicd in tlif
meed tlu-
irce fires '.■'
THH WORLD AS SHb;x To-DAV. 53
''''';'-^, "'-'^ ''^' ^; '"""'-' '1''1'" "t le>so„. learned i.v a hnndred dil^l.-enl people and K-Mti
nate lessons. As lor n.ysell, I adjonrn n.o.t of the n.eanin, „. ,he next v . • V In
'^•;';>' tiuav ,n two nnnutes n.ore than we ean find o,u here ur,iav v e, " V th , n
I)alion. ni>steries do n,,t ,,iun bother me. \miii mat antu i-
"One reason Tor these eoirseenlive disasters mav be that the ,,,i'en.v ,,r .1, 1 ,
;...;;.,.; .;.. .. a then, or heavenly rennniseenee. ^w";:;V J.^U an"::.;!';;;: Z^!;
..ii^'bilihb-ii^t^l:;;;::;;:;:;-:-
X„hfs Drean, of beantv. Hnehantn.ent lilted in ^dler e a s rmi ^ H, ""'"'"';""
'.ul n, the li,ht whieh can.e thron.h windows tond.in" t t^uZ'ZZ^' ''H '"
acoustics so rare that thonsands of ears were in eisv r. Th '^ ' ^ '""
...an which was a ha.ic,„ah set np in pipi^ :;;d^b:nk:dl;; ;:':;;;;• ^r^r;:;:;..^^
;na.npnlat,on. t uU wonld lead the congregational son^ as an arch n.el d 'h e " u ,
''l"n-'i>soroan! \\ hen it died down into the ashes of that fnv n'erlen, 1
where Handel and Hav.ln be^an to ,,lav on it The , ' ' r '''"' "''
I ' • • ' '"■ "i"st sniier b aiK lence-rooni thii l
e\er ,>,Mzed on or ever expect to sec, until I enter th.. '1\.,„,>1 rti c -
,,, ' .""I'l"'* """•'" >■«>"'" f»f >'•' <lq.»nuro <.r that l,.,„* «,,» tliat it \m\ .\,m. iu ,v„rl-
'»n Id .t, cNcn ,f we had known at the start that it would onlv last fron, iSoi to .So.
'■'nn.du up Tfu'sW U ^^T"!^^-", ''^-' - con.plin.ent to u.xsclf, who was
'n.s>, I ^sould take „, all the eloquence and kindness and splendor of that n,cn.oral,le
54
Till-: KARTH r.IRDl.KD.
wvrk. Wliat mi-Iit Ii;i\r Ircii Uif rc-siilt upon nivseir 1 kn.nv „ t i i
|"av have I,cu, ,u.c.,K..l, a.ul it .„„. so close „,>o„ th. a<h. U , ' a^.l ' "^ "
• MioiiKTuas,,,, lor tlK l„vs I think is tl.at sonKlmw. and in a w ,v tint I In,.
n,.po,tnn.ti.s a,v to wulcn. Alt.r each oftl.c otl.cr firc^ new v ' , ' V l':'
fully exjHvt that snch will be the seqnence of tl,e last conlla.nation ' ' ''"
W ill the llni(pkl\ n 'l\iIicriiMr>li. t... ^,.i,,,;t. •a i i
in
lirnnkhn Tahernacle be rebnilt? I k,u,w"nol:'" What or when or where
nail \K ni\ wotk I cannot even i^niess. nor have I the least nivL.t, v fi • ,
.;:;;tr;:r;yr;::;:;;--— --^
like b!b''h ""T"-ir V '"r """^i"^ ^^'^'i'^ --'M-l the lips of ;his n.ost optinnstic of nun •
hU Job, he snbnmte,! to wliatever it was the w,ll of (lo.l to scnrl • tl.at .s rain f, '
;;i- the jnst a., the nnjnst, so does aOversitv know no .HstincU; .n'i' ii: ili ^ 1 he't ^
l"^al, the I.oul shonl.l therelore accept whatsoever it seen.eth ,oo.l to Hin, to s |
n„l that chasteneth bnds forth with blessin-K
Uromes a crown sometinus the bnnlen is a cross. An.l in /ins divine spirit of resi-nuUion
Dr. lahnaue watched the ..reat Tabernacle, bniit with so n.nch effort dedicate Iwi
nuch revercncv, snstained_ bv so nn.ch .ood, beanti.n, with so nn J o , ,bl , ^
ashes. d,,s,solve orever ,n a herv end.race of the red wraith whose breath sdestrnc >> The
I.ord ,ave, an.l the Lord hath taken awav ; bles.sed be the nan.e of the In
vSoinetinies tiie
^-^s ; sometimes the hea\v \-oke
i
sci'ii tipon
■Jiilfl-'t is IK)
riif disaster
as ail lAiT-
<</|. no sflf-
The Earth Girdled.
i)\v not, in\-
I praycr-
i or wlicrc
iiif,^ but an
\v(-I\i' (laws
Lie of uifii ;
falls alike
11(1 Ik' ujio
1 to si'iid.
caw yoke
esij,niatioii
<1 with so
iiiibk- into
11. ''The
'I' li a 1 r past
nine oV-loek,
on the nij^lil
of Ma\ 14,
iS(;4, I (leseend the front
stepsofni\li()nuiiil!i()ok-
lyn, Xew York. The seii-
'-atioii of lea\iii,<^ for a
jonnies around the world
is not all made up of
I'lii'ht aiitieipatiou. Tlie
' l)c tra\eled are
-0 nuiuerons, the seas to
be crossed are so treacher-
ous, the peradventures are
so k-^reat, that the solemni-
ties outnumbered the t \-
pcctations. iMy fainilv
accompany nie to the rail-
wax- train ;— will we all
meet ajrain ? The cli-
'iiatic chanjre.s, the ships,
the shoals, the hurricanes,
the l)rid},res, the cars, the
epidemics, the ])ossil)ili-
ties, hinder aii\ i)ositi\e-
nrssofprophecv. I come
d(-wn the front steps of
my home; will I ever
aj,'-ain ascend them ? The
remark ni.ide by Honor-
able William M. Juarts
a few evenino-s before, at
the public reception on
the conclusion of mv
Brook!
CHAI'Tl.-.k I.
TRANSCONTINENTAL
taki.;n on- his jocrn-kv Auorxn Tin.; woRi.n, jr-,.v 27, 1.S9,,
AIS'I-KAI.IA.
I" SVnXKY,
H
e said : " Dr. Tal
n pa.storate, tliou.^h uttered
ma<re ouyht to realize that if 1
(55)
in lacetioiisiiess.
was consolatorv
le -oes around the world, lie will come
56
THK KARTH GIRDLED.
out at the same place from wl.id, he starte.!." May the Cod win. holds the wi.uls in one
li>t, and the ocean in the iiollow of the other hand, in'oteel ns.
I leave h.nne while tlie tinil)ers of onr destroyed chnrch are still snn.kin.. Three
J^reat chnrches have, been eonsunud. Why this series of hn.,e calannties, I know not. Ha<l
I no n.ade all the arranuenienls for departnre, and been assnred bv the trnstees of
n.v chnrch that thev wonld take all the responsibilities npon themselves, I wonld have
postpone<l n.v intended tonr, or a.ljonrned it forever ; bnl all whon, I have consulted tell nie
now IS tlie time to -o, and so 1 turn uiv face toward the Colden (".ate
I do not leax-e America becanse there arc not wonders enou.h to look at between the
Atlantic and Pacnc. Helore any one leaves this conntry for a tour aronn.l the world he
onoht to see the \osemite, Yellowstone Park, Mammoth Cave of Kentnckv and Lookout
Mountain ( n your wav across the continent sweep round bv this last wonder of the
planet. I t.-ok a carnaoe and wound np Lookout Mountain. Up, np, up ! Standin- there
on the tip top rock I saw five States of the Lnion. Scene stupendous ind overwheh, "
One almost ,s disposed to take oil his hat in the presence of what seems to be the ..randc^l
pnjspect on tins contiueiU There is Missionary Rid^e, the beach against whicirthe red
bllousof I-edcM-a an, Co.ilederate courage .snr.ed and broke. There are the Hlue
Mountams of North and South Carolina. With strain of vi.sion, there is Kentuckv, ther
IS \ iroima. .\ our loot, Chattanoooa and Chickamau,^^,, the pronunciation of which proper
names will thrill a,es to come with thon.ohts of valor aiul desperation and a^onv. Look!;':
each way aiul anv wav from the top of that mountain, earthworks, earthwork's-the beautiful
I ennessec windin^v throu-h the valley, curlino- and coiliuK^ around, makin- letter " S " after
ktter " S as ,f that letter stood for shame, that brothers should have o'one into mas.saere
with each other, while (.o,l an.l nations lookc.l on. I have stood on Mount Washington
and on the Sierra Xevadas, ami <.ii the Alps; but I never .saw so far as fron, the t;,! of
Lookout Mountain. I looked back thirtN-one >ears, ami I saw rollin- up the .side of tint
".oniitam the smoke of Hooker's storming- partv while the foiuulatk.ns of eternal rock
qnakcl with the cannoua.le. P'our xears of internecine strife .seemed to come back, and
wit lior anv chronological ,.rder I saw the events : Norfolk Xavx- Yard cm fire ; Fort Snmter
on hre; Charleston <m fire; Chaml,er.sbur>, on fire; Columbia, S.mth Carolina on fire •
I oik fall, and Stonewall Jackson lall. .\iid I saw huiulreds of j^rave trenches afterward cut
into two oreat oashes across the laiul, the one for the dead men of the North, the other for
he dead men of the .South. .Vnd nn ear as well as n,y eve was c.uickcned and
heard the tramp ol enlistin.u- armies, and I heard the explosion' of mines and j^n.n'powder
n.aoaxines and the cra.sh of fortification walls, and the ".swan,p anj,el," and the , oarof
dviiio hos s ialliii, across the pulseless heart of other dyiii,. host.s. And I saw still fur her
on and I saw on the banks of the I'enob.scot and the ()re,,.,u and the Ohio and the
Hu lso„ and the RoaiK.ke and the Yazoo aiul the Alabama, widowhood and orphana-.e and
childles.s„ess-some exhausted in ^rief and others stark and n,ad, and I .said, " Knou-^h
enonoh li.,ye .seen into the past from the top of Lookout Mountain. () (lod ! .show me
the hiture. And standing- there, it was revealed to me. And I looked out and I .saw -.reat
populations roni the Xorth movin, ScnUh, and ,reat populations from the South mo^-in,.
Nprth, and I lonnd that tlieir footsteps obliterated the hoof-mark of the war charjjers
And I saw the .\iioel ol the L.nl of hosts standiuK^ in the national cemeteries, trumpet in
hand, as niuch as to sav, '' I will wake these soldiers from their Ion,- encampn.e^t." '^nd I
looked an<l I saw such shown- harvests of cotton and such oolden harvests of corn as I had
viiuls in one
iii<j-. Three
I' not. Had
Irnslees of
would liave
Ited tell me
)etvveen the
le world he
id I^ookont
ider of the
ndin,^ there
whelniinj^ I
le ,t,n-ai'dest
ieh the red
the nine
iek\-, there
licli proper
I^ookinjr
e beantifni
" S " after
3 massacre
asliington,
the top of
de of tliat
n-nal rock
hack, and
)rt Snniter
I, on fire ;
nd Hishop
rward cut
other for
xl, and I
nnjiowder
jjl^roan of
ill fnrther
) and the
iiaj^^e and
Enonjrh,
show me
saw i^reat
1 movin.<,f
charj>ers.
im]ict in
' And [
as I had
11 I
THIC KAR'ni (;iRI)LKD.
^^
iR-ver iiiiaf,niK>(], and I foiiiul tlial tl
and
til
K' tartluvoi
<-' war barracks wcri
niakinj^- letter " S "' after letter " S
<l<)\vn, and I saw the r
;s were down, and the <nin-carri;
iws down,
ucr windin.n thron.tjh the vallev,
as I
saw that all tlu
-no more " vS " for slianic
bnt
and I said, " Is this safe?" And
weapons ol war were tnrned into
or salvat
ion.
And
^ricnltnral iinplenients I was alaniied,
I was so near heaven that I heard t
taiidin>; there on the tip-top rock of J.ookoiit M.aintaiii
wo
tl
an>- more." And I u
ie\- saii,^-, " Nation shall not lift np swon
\()ices which some w
i\-
i])ped I'roin the <;ate, and
di
;nized the tw
o N'oices.
ers who lei
at SI
lllo
!i; tl
le one a Federal, the oth
a<4aiiist nation, neither shall tlie>- learn war
two Christian
iie\- were the xoices
brothers !
After yon lia\-e visited that historical pi;
Cave. With lanter
walk fourteen mil
lis and torches and a ,<,niide, we went d
er a Confederate. And tliev were
ice \-oii had better come up 1)\- the Maminoth
es and see no sunli<>ht. It i
iwn into that cave. Voi
1 iiiav
the cave a hniidied feet lii"li. Tlu
s a wonderful jilace. Some parts the roof of
iiuisible
stalactites descndiiii^- from the roof of the
iei<;ht to invisible depth. Stalaj^niites r
>ttos filled with weird ecli
oe
s, cascades falliii<>; from
isiiio up from the floor
tl
le rive —
the Almiidit
v s sc
nlnt
ptnnii,<.
Then
cave, joining each other, and makintr ]
:us o
f
nude carries his lantern ahead of \
c are rosettes of anietlnst in hall
of
spectral. The darkness is fearful. T
>oii, the shadows h;
!:;> psnir
lie
ue an appearance sii])crnaturrd and
lours, >ears aj^m, were demented, and for \
wo people, .i^ettin,!^ lost from their "tiid
e onl\- for a few
your breath as yon walk acr
h
)ss the hridws that seei
years sat in their insanity. Vou feel like holding
,i,nii(le throws Ins calciiim lioht down into the ci
11 to span the hottoniless abvss. Tl
rock to rock, and fi
ill depth to depth, makiiio- at
iveriis, and the li<-lit rolls and to
fr
le
om
wl'nl power that could have made such a pl.ace as that. A
on as you think that you are two liiindred and fift
every ])lnii(,re a new revelation of the
sense of sufiocation comes upon
■^urlaci
e of the earth. The ,i,niide, after a while, tak
Chamber," and tl
ieet 111 a strai<ilit line from the sunlit
cs you into what is called the " Star
down under the rocks, and it
hand an inch from the eve is
and plac
leu lie say., to you: "Sit here," and then he takes the laiitcr
tl
111.^ It in a cliff of the rock, tli
,^ets darker and darker, until tlu
unobservabic. And then, bv kindli
ere is a refiectii
11 and trocs
ni,<4ht is so thick that the
ii.<> one of the lanterns.
lere are stars comiii;.
exclaim : " I
cavern, and wanders on, and
out 111 constellations— a brilliant iiiHit 1
)n cast on the dome of tl
le cave, and
>eautilnl I beautiful
Tl
icn he takes the lantern d
icavens — and you r.uoluntarily
oun in other depths of the
and it seems like the
wanders off, until he comes ii]) from behind the rocks "Taduallv
dawn of the i
m
is a skilled v
all
eiitnloqnist, and he imitates tli
)rniii,<,v and it ,t,rets bri<>liter and bri"liter. Tl
.Uone, and >-ou stand coiio;ratulatiii<r \ourself over tl
le .t^nide
e voices of the moriiin<>-, and .soon the s-looni is
I'
efore tak
National j'arks— V
in.s.r steamer at the Pacific
adji
iniiii^r Californian re<>i<
)seinite and Vellowstcme Park. Who tl
le weird aiiii enchanting sjiectacle.
coast, \()ii ons^ht certainly to visit tl
)ns can tli
iiii
.f tl
le two
lat has seen Voseinite and tlie
now standing- there that
before Ciesar or Ale\-aiider, and tli
were old when Christ lived I The
leiii without ha\-iii"- his blood ti
iiiiie
se monarchs of fol
1 rees
ia,"e reiyiied
T
ley are the ni.ists of the coiit
le next thousand years will not shatter tli
iiiciil, their cam-
el r
)ears on its w
i\- throui>li the aye-
;is sj.iread
th
sceptn
e winds, while the old .ship
That vallev of the V
thousand feet deep. It seem
osemite is ei^ht mi
es
loll"' and
hall
•mill'
widt
and
nice
as s
mall
s as if it had been the nieanin.c.- of Omnipotence to crowd into
tho:
a i)lace as ])()ssible some of the most stunemh
.se ciitts vou (1
)ns srener\- ot th.e
o not stop to measure b\' feet, for tlie\' are literall
vSotnc of
V a 11
lilt- liij^^h. Steep .so
'.'1
ajjes down,
the \alk\-,
tioii. And
IS alarmed,
M'linitain,
e j;atc, and
learn war
) Christian
they were
Mammoth
Von ina\'
he roof of
dlinj^ from
he rn\'e —
:i •';..:.. of
■^< (he
attUTil and
V for a few
ce Iioldin,<r
yss. The
osses from
ion of the
)nies npon
tlie sunlit
tlie "Star
and (TQcs
; that the
lanterns,
cave, and
olnntarily
ths of the
.'Tadiially,
I'he <i-nide
■ <;loom is
ectacle.
the two
e a!Kl the
? Trees
e reitjned
■ sceptre !
old ship
nd three
■owd into
Some of
Steep so
6o
THE KARTH GIRDLED.
tlial n.itlicr font of n.an nor beast ever scale.l tl,e,„, tl.e^• stand in cvcrlastin- .Icfiance If
Jehovah has a throne on eartli, tliese are its wliite nill,r^i c:,., >• "''"".-> '^™t. If
chasn, of the vallev, yon look ,;,,, and Z.Z C^he a Roc^ T!^"^ f""" '"• '"" 7^^^
i;>r the silent worsh.p of the n.onntains ! Vondt^^ S^ t^ R^ k ' ^^'U'lirh'' " M
solrtarv, standing ,nard an.on, the a,es, its top seldon. touchec! ;:uil^CiS;\ ^ ) i;!^
of nl> nuM.nted u and planted there the national standard, and tl^M^eop le d Zn i th
vonk. IK the Ihiee 15,othcrs, 4000 feet lno;]i ; Clond's Rest, North and Sonth Dome and
hc^hts never eaptured ..ve by the fierv bavonets of the Uuuuler-sto n. r X J ^^
M„. S„„„, ,,,.- ,.,,„ „„ „„„,„.^ ^„^ ^,^,__^_^ ^^ „„„„,„„, ,,„ „ „„,^ „„
lanting artists
the Morans and Bierstadts and the other end
jfiaiicf. If
I this urcat
liiistcr hiiilt
iii.!4li, l)oI(i,
UK' I"\)ir'*.li
lown ill ilu-
ikI Stripes I
Dome, and
) pause for
)iintains in
Mountains
c and tlie
laynificent
)cks, tlie
iiouiitaiii
descent
ite spirit
da Fall,
lie water
li jewels
ters, the
rk.
1 poetry
L? artists
62
THH KARTH GIRDLED.
the vapor horn of that nmrria-c tcrr fio ( ' ^ '■■'^"'^'"t^- I'nc and water, and
over five, thousand vcvar • owin „ nfS'T"" T '" '^ "*" "■--^'^' that have been
<l"akn,.witI,a,neo.,s,KU.,;" %tt t"^ ?""' ^'■""''"- ^"'^'^'"^' ^--"^<
Re^■sers tossing Its boil n. u . "' /^ ^1' •''"'"" '^'^ ^?" ^-^>-'^- '"-"tes one of the
., ' . '^ '"'"•"• ^'"piiui anci arsenic and as
cn,„;,;t n;:twil iz:t ;;;'";"'"«'•■■" .r'r •",■■'= "- "- •*>-. Krec, „.. .„c m^.^.
»s .l,e bear, i„ c re c ' u a .."le, °"'' '■'' '■" "" ''■■'''■■•"■"' '••'"■">^ •■" "«■■ "<■•'. sri-Iv
a process „f nl«„ a .^ . 'e , ' , '™ , "^V''''' ^"f ""»" "'■»'1'« a«es, kept ,1,,™,,.,,
cl.il,l ,naki„K a firs, atterap to walk LT ,s "^ ,f Tf" ""^ ""'°«"' ■•'"" '""H"!-' »-'^'
-a..<l I s,»..ak ,. „i,l, reverenee-J r;, see',; „ , "■ "' 'T """ " ''""= '" ""■
great „ulel, let down into tl.e eternU ^ H ere , TT""'^ "'""'"■ " "«"« '■•
are all the eolors of land and sea a, d ^v ', f "'' "f, '"' ''""■"' »"<' '^I>^<'--«' a''™'!
»ork of the ArCUeet of 1',^ t Ip nri J ,:' r'K te'' m:" ''-"V^"'"«"'>--. ''-
rowel Yellow : y„„ „,,„ ,„„ 1^^, „,„;^^> ^' ' '^;, , Jj^™ >, '>■ - """..potent
red nnless von saw it there Vnl^f ! v ' u tiicre. Ked ! \on never saw
'^>i-l»'ant banners of clr iV: thee r^l on;" rV'"' '' "iT ^^^ '""'^ " ^'--
setting of rainbow rinij. cathedral of basalt, Snnnse and Snnset married by the
architlSlt :::' t.f t;::;:"J^:!:;;;„r:;^ ^^^-P^-- ^-^ncas bniU be^re mnnan
first cannon, (iibraltars an^Seb on 1 m^ constrncted before war forced its
of strength and qne of b',^ ^"e- ^^^^^^^^ ''''' IT T ''! '^'^"'- ''""'^"■'-^ -'-re ki„,.
Thrones on which no on bn tL K nl of If i" ''1 "'^^'"•^' "■"^^'" ^^'^^-^ -"P^-^^^-
which the hills are bap /e vl le ^hJ^ vT '"' ''''''' ''''' ''''■ ^^"""^ °f ^^aters at
of years before tlu. Te ie w^s nv^^ ''•"? ™'"" "^ ^P"""'^- ^'-- ^^-'--'^
gey.ers w.re hewinl away with the ot" ^7 'f'\ ^'" ^'"""'^^ ^^'^^"^ ^-^>-' -^l ^h.
cold hannners, and TuirZne ' re H.l \ "V' r^""'"''' ''''' P"""^''"" ^^'it'i their
Kivin.thefndshin, r^^^^ ^^-'Z 'i^'>t-n,. strokes, and hailstones
centnry thecnrtai,rdrop d ^1 the wo ld^l^,^n^^^ ''' /v'"'' ''"' ''""^ ^''^''^ ^^•^^' '" «"-
Old Testament written o.rm, the K ''^ T'' '"'^ '^'""^''^^ '"'^P''"' ''^velation. The
Testa.nent written on tl" Ss " """' """"' "" parchn.ent, and this last
exposed place I looked down aoan,. Down there is a pillar of rock that
64
THK KARTH GIRDLED.
Ill i.'(.itaiii (.•oiidilioii:, of the atiiii)S])lK'it.'
liki
I pillar of hlood. VoiKkr arc fifty feet
|.l uncraM o„ a uasc oi i,vc- luiii.liv.l feet of opal. Wall of chalk rcsiin^ „n pedestals «f
iKryl. 1 Uriels ot hohi iniiibliuj. „„ floors of darkness. The l.n.wii ■|.ri-liteiiii„r i„to
«o 1. leii Snow „| ervstal melting into fire of carhiuicle. Flaming ,e(l colin.^ into nisset
Cnid hlue warnuii.i^ into saflnm. Dnll on.v kindliiin- into solferino. Morning twili-dit
tlnshiu- iiiidni<riit shadows. Auroras cronchin.i;- anions rocks.
Non.ler is an ea-le's nest on a shaft of basalt. Tlirou-h an eve-ola.ss we sec anion.- it
the vouiio ea-les. I.ul the stoutest ami of our -roup cannot hurl a .stone near enough to
di>luil, the leathered douieslicity. Von.ler are hei-hts tliat wouM he ehilled with horror
but lor the warm robe of forest foliaue wi h wliieh tliev are enwrapped, .\ltars of worship
al winch n Uioiis nii-ht kneel. I)oine> of chalcedonv on temples of ].orphvrv. See all this
carnage ol color up aiul down the cliffs ; it must have been the battlefield of' the war of the
IlKdAIlMlKili CASINO ANT) C in;%'i:NN
<V. Mor-NTAIN. CnT.DRAtili
eeuKiits: Here ale all the colors of the wall u\ heaven; neither the sapphii," uor the
clirvs.,i,te, nor the to])ax, nor the jacinth, nor the amethyst, nor the ias]XT, nor the twelve
-atool twelve pearls, wanting. If spirits bound from earth to heaven could pass up bv
wav ol this canon, the <lasli of heaveiilv beaiitv would not l)e so overpowerino- R would
oiilv be troni -lory to -lorv. Ascent throii-h such earthlv scenerv, in which ilie ervstal is
.so bright, would be fit prei)anitioii for the "sea of -la.ss mingled with fire."
StaiHlino- there in the (irand Canon of the Vellowstc'.iie Park, for the most part we
hel.l our pe.ice, but .ifter ;i while it fiashed upon me with such power I could not help but
say to mv comrades: "What a Hall this would be for the last Jud-iiieiit '" See tint
mi.uhtv ca^eade will, the rainbows at llie foot of it ! Those waters eonoealed and transfixe.l
with the a,;;,tatioiis ,,| that dav, what a place tliev would make for the shiiiin- feet of the
Jnd-e ol <,uicl.; and .Kvid ! And those rainbows look now like the crowns to be cast at Hi.
feel.
.\l the bolt
"111 ol tins L^rcat cifioii is a fioor on which tl
le nations of the earth nii"lit
lie fifty feet
pedestals of
teiiiiiH;- into
into iiisset.
M.n t\vili.i;lit
•e aiiioii}; it
r eiiouji[li to
ivitli liorror
of worsliip
Sec all this
war of the
e, nor tlic
.he tweUe
)ass np i)\
It won 1(1
crystal is
^t part \vi'
t help bnl
See thai
transfiNed
eet of the
ast at II i^
rtli niiuht
66
THK EARTH GIRDLED.
slaiul, and all u]) and down those «allcrifs of rock the nations of heaven inislit sit. And
what reverberation ol archau-els' trumpet there would he through all these },ror-es and
Ironi all these caverns and over all these hei-hts. Why should not the greatest of all the
days the world shall ever see close amid the /grandest scenery Omnipotence ever built ^
Oh the sweep of the American continent ! Sailiti},' up Pn«et Sound, I said. '• This i.
the Mchterranean -I America." \-isitin- Portland and Tacoma and Seattle and Victoria
and .ort Inwnsend and Vancouver, an.l other cities of the northwest region, I tlu.noht to
myself: Ihese are the Hostotis. New Vorks. Charlestons au<l Savannahs of the Pacifu.
coast. I.nt alter all, I forud that I had .see.; only a part of the An.erican continent, for
r.UAM) CANON Ol- Till' COI.OU A DO.
Alaska is as far west of San iMaueisco as the coast of .Maine is east of it, so that the centra!
city of the .\iiiericaii coiitiiient'is San I'rancisco.
_ Si.v times before this have I crosse.l the Aiueriean Continent, and I have seen the sui,
rise iroui the Golden cra.lle of the eastern sky and seen him burie.l beneath the pomp ..
the western hon/on. Three nirths have been put around the .\n,erieau ContiiK-nt ; tlu
Northern I'acihe. the ruioi, Pacific and the Southern I'acific. All these oinhs have bee.,
t,..htene(l, an.l the buckles are UK.vin- from one puncture to another niitil the continent .-
le.ss and less in cncu inference. When I first crossed it, it took fullv seven dav.s. Instead ol
theeleoant dinii.i^carsof to-dav, we stopped at restaurants with table covers indcscribabU
for they had ou them lavers of other strata of breakfasts insnltin- i„ appearance. The fir-
time I ever saw Jml^.e iMeld. of the United States Supreme Court, was at one of these tabic .
on the Rockv Muiiutains.
I
Sf
?lit sit. And
- nyjit'^ and
L-st of all tilt
r built?
lid, '-Tlii.s is
and \'ic-toria
I Mlulitjllt to
tiiL' Pacific
:ontiiRiit, for
tlic cciitm; '4
ceil the sni
le pomp o!
tiiicnt ; tlu'
■i liavc heci
:ontinent i-
IiLstead <ii
lescribabli .
The fii-i
diese tabk -.
CIIAI'TlvR II.
ACROSS THE CONTINENT.
Ol'R journey across tlie continent was prosperous. ( )nc dav , however, was ho.uuled
on one s„le l,y a broken l.i i^e and ou tl.e otlier l.vai. avalanclie of rocks,
l.efore risni^ m the n.orniu;. the Pulhnan sleeper «ave a half dozen au-^rv
jerks showin- that we were derailed, or that the traek was derange.!. The
nent a.ul the track was crooked and uneven and rea.ly to fall. liut it'hel.l us until
ve s.,t over. We all stood and looke.l at the hrok.u bridge and felt thankful to have
of our attention
crosse.l without dantagc. ludeed that broken bridge attracted more
« « oi • « a a jp^Q
< *JBUi ^
-•,U-«. » I
-■m- *._J^,
>^'*%:-:^
^r
THK nRKAKiNC UAii.RnAn iiRmr.E that wk passed o er.
than the hundreds of faithful bridges that had put us across the chasms, an.l those fev
erooke,l rails, than the two thousand miles of track that had kept strai<.ht while w-
passed over u So u is in all kinds of life, one crooked unm excites „;;re attentio,
than a hundred tlu.usand who preserve their intc<,mt>- or maintain their usefulness nn,i
.one man u-1,o breaks (own under the heavy j-^ressure of life is more reu.arked upon than
swhole cou.mumties of men who stand firm and trt.e, though lon«- trains of disaster ro"
(68)
THi; WORM) A.s si;i-:\ td-day.
69
:;;:r::;f r ::;::::i^ :t,z ,;;^: u;:'-;-;s,3"- - - .■;:-» '-"->"
n..lcof ti.e Krc-at tm.,sc.,„ti,u.ntal railroad is a miracle vca twi c i • ' ^"^ V"'^
Du-inc power tliat l.cavc.l up tli. mountains and a , r H '"> .k'Ic^ a nuradc of
they were ,.asl,e.l and tunnded. CTZ^^Z^I^!: ! -^HKcnn,. by wl,ich
re„,arkahle thin, between tl,e AtlanticUd ,4dfic^ It . ■ Z^^Z 'T''' " '''' ""^^^
111 Colorado It is called the " \r,.M„t r .1 ir , " ., " " ' ""-^ "" "^ "I'^'iutain
before tlie cross of wood was set up on tlic bluff bnol-^f T ^\"''"" "'^ "I' ^''^'•^" "' '"^k
HSSESES^lii His?
Salanic „„,„e„cla.„re ,„„cl, „f „!c „e„er ■ 1, , e" ,c " U t^li 7 '"'",""' ""','
tlie rocks are called flu- " TV,-,-p. i. i •. m , V -^t''i"ti<- and Pacific, and some of
that the Devil
Devil's Slide," and is it not liicrh time tliat t]
IS as poor now as wlien on the l
real estate, he offered Christ the k
op oi the Temple, and not ow
le world finds out
injrdoms of this world, and that instead f the'l
nin,<>^ an acre of
luman and
■*
asi
fact
Im-
UK-IS
a rooii
comitr
pencil
incise
ind a ]
11)1 i'(
Con
ii'l'CS.'
''■(■Iiitcctn
iiiiparallfl
The (Ia\- 1
flic battles
tile officers
I>irect()r-0
--ton- of til
'•>■ saviiiir •
Tl
10
•""lilies, reti
\(]n \v(..j-(> ,1
<^'""i knew t
-*
rrl
•J
3
I*.
t/l
x
THE WORLD AS SEEN TO-DAY.
biasplienunis as.sij,r„i„^. ..f tl,is ,„• tliat ,,■„-. , r n • ^^
i.i^lM.p and stupendous si^„ on th. Mo, „t of Lnr'r'''''^'"' '''^""''"^- ^^''^ ^ak. tl.is
iact cl,at to Christ helon-^s this continent ^ " ^'"'' '" ^"'"'•■■''" •■'•^ tvpical of the
I closed this jo,n-ney across tlie continent -.f ,i
iM-ancisco. Ust antnnn, yu-. j,.. y. ^ ; ^p^^^- f^ the luten.ational Fair at San
^' -;"vl^'!'-^<'> and a .orei,„cr s:dd :;:'",'""";'•"- ^'"--^ -as seated in
count,, .s ,ahncs before leavin,- A„K.,-ica A,- y ' "■''"' •'•"•'^''"" ^■^'"■'''t "^ ''is
P-c! he,,an to calcnhUe the p„ssihilits- of ,Vk ,„.'"""^ '■^'""' " '"^ '■'""" -"' -'t'' '"s
^'-csco. lidievin^ that it could he done I " .^Z '"T" '" ' "'''"'"^^■^ ^''■'- '" «"»
••■"la laroe sul,serip,i„„ of n.onev wa. n, I, 'r'''^" "'"•^' '''•''"'*"->» CaIifo,-,,ia,,s,
-loot. Co,,siderin,t!: short ,in,e .ha, ';,;;' 'r' '"i""'"""' ""■'-'^''<"-^ was se
C»n,ress.onal a,d .as voted, it is the n.ost ^ilnd ^ ;:,^:V';T'"^7'^^-^- -" ^'^^ "o
^^■^^iHKTT^gn—T- -T-SKKT- ---- "" t'"'^ c-ontiueiit. The
cn,xATou-N, SAN rRAKcscu.AssnowvM,. .vrnrc,^
■^Hntecnre, the fonntai.is. the statn-uv the fn,', r """"'
;;:;i-allele.l, and the i,nn,;nsitv f ^P ,' ^ •;■ ^"^' l!"^;' ^""""'-'- and Inse,o„s„ess
, "^; ''- ' visited it was the Xation.d Z :^^ .^ ^'"'^ 1— of the centnrv.
tile battles of onr civil war and .Ml, ' ' '' '?''>' coni,nen.o,-ative of those fdlen i„
;;■:• -n^ce,. of the Pair :rd;.i;:er' ,::;;: 'z : ^T ^ "f" - • ' '•-• "-■■ i-t;; ;
n.rector-Oeneral, I conlVonted an audi "c, 1 , i ' ' ''""""^ ■"■^•-' ^o u,e bv the
-- <:r the prowess and the self.sa;rifi:^ ' U ^wh^tTf M """ ^"''"•■^"'^^' ^-" ^'-
''•^ ^-y'^^' •• '"'" '''^'' '^^"- t!'^' conntrv, and concluded
The orreatest da\- I ever ^^-nv,..,. i
;'"■"". ■« "I n- »""cK.,::r;:;;'L:';',. .:'";;•"■;■'■ ■ ""■^™'' '"'■ "-^ "■'■™ "-■
\(iii wei-e a X<wfh,.f- ., ,. , ' UMcwat Waslniu'to,
('.<"1 k
■lew that the d
!crn man or a South
ern man,
I
>'"i could not have looked
ay was stupendous, and He cleared the 1
eavens of cloud and
care not wlicther
on without tears.
i'>\
'i'i.i
mist and
72
THE EARTH GIRDLED.
clnll, an< sprung tl.e blue sky as a triun:phal arch for the returning warriors to pass under
Prom Arln,gton He.ghts the spring foliage shook out its weleomels tl,e hosts^ an ov";
the h lis, and the sparkling waters of the Potomac tossed their gold to the feet of tie
batahous as they can,e to the Long Bridge and in almost interminable line p^s d ov "
iheCapUol, for wuose defence these men had fought, never seen,ed so majeltic as thai
njorn.ng, snowy wlnte, ooking down upon the tides of n.en that can:e surgim. ou biUow
after bdlow Darms and Xerxes saw no such hosts as those that nuarch.ed in our th ee eTt
arm,esof Potonuac, Tennessee and Georgia. Those ancient rulers fought fo fan e These
were the heroes of the Union. Passing in silence, yet I heard in every^step the h „d of
conflicts hrough wh.h they had waded, and seemed to see drippiug from th l mokl
bhxckened fla,. the blood of otn- country's mart>rs. For the best part of two da^s t^t
ad w-atched the fihng on of what seemed endless ranks; brigade after brL^ade'- d vision
after duxsjon; host after host ; rank beyond rank; ever n,ovh:g, ever passFn ' m ch ,?
marcluug! Tramp! Tran,p ! Tran:p ! These fought in the Wi dernesf Th; ^roc e £
hghtmng sfrrups behind cavalry Sheridan. These uk-u were at Ch^tanoo^a Those
toed on Lookout Mountan:. These followed their captain from Atlanta to the sea hoidim'
the same flag, hftmg the san,e sword, nuarching, marching. Tramp- rraruv^rT^Z
Thousands after thousands; battery front; arms shouldered^; cohunn solid s'oulde to
shoulder; whee to wheel ; charger to charger; nostril to nostril ; connnanders o hors s
wUh mane entw.ned wUh roses and necks enchained with garlands fractiot.s Tth ou
that ran along the hue increasing from the clapping of children clothed in white ^t^Z^
on the steps of the Cap.tol. to the tumultuous vociferations of two hundred t ho ad
of enraptured people crying Huz.a ! Huzza! Gleaming muskets; thunderino- park o
artiller>-; rumbling pontoon wagons ; ambulances from whose wheels seemed o sound out
the groan of the cnished and the dying whom thev had carried. These men can e fro
ba liny Imnesota. Those from Illinois prairie. Tluse were often humme tTslee b^ t
G teofthT'"fi ^''°- — ^^-- E"Sland lumbermen. These came from the' Golden
Gate of the Pacific. Those came out of the coal shafts of Pennsvlvania. Side bv side i
one great cause consecrated, through fire and storm and darkness", brothers hped o the
wa^ 1.,„ie from Chancellorsville and Kene.saw Mountain and Fredericksburg. In lin s n
eemeu infinite, thev pass on. We gazed and wept and wondered, lifting up on eve >
see If the end had come. Put no ! looking from one end of that long aJen, e t he o li
we see them yet in solid column ; battery front ; host beside host ; wheel to wh el c la -ge to
harger ; nos ril to nostril ; coming as it were from under the Capitol. Forward ' Forw cP
hen- bavonets, caught in the sun, glimmer and flash and blaze till thev seem like oT o g
ver of silver, ever and anon ciianged into a river of fire. No end to the proce" son lo
rest for he eyes. We avert our head from the scene, unable longer to look We feel
iramp Rut hush ! uncover every head. Here thev pass, the remnant of ten men of •.
once full regiment. Silence ! Widowhood and orphanage look on and wrin. lid l.nd^
Uncover every head ! Put wheel into the ranks all ve people North Sou h Fa t wf '
all decades, all centuries, all millenniums. Forward the iliot lii^T ktza - H^'z '
befor Tached hj;-e"'f °" "" T''^'^''^^, ^"f ^^ ."^ ''^^-^'-^^ ^"-tion was asked me just
before 1 reached heie. I was ,n deep slumber in a section of a sleeping car when tin-
curtain was pushed oaek and a ^■enerable lady seized liold of me and shk^ked o it ' W
and I did not feel like answering *.o my name. The question was repeated in more earnest^
3ga. Tliose
THE WORLD AS SEEN TO-DAY.
iicss and with louder voice 7 n n
identity, but after ,athen„, .:1:l::::.S::;f:::^:' '"'' '-^ '""^^^^^'■- - ^" -
aken ,„y place for her own. This was „o ] ,bt 1 1- "'T'i'' ''''' '"'''''^'^ '^'^ ^'^d
IlH- fact ,s that the sections and berths of a lepin cT' " ''''''' "" ^^"'^'^ '''^<^-^-
mode of han^nns,. the number of the berth I '7 ''"'' ''''■ ""'^■'' ^^'^^^'- The new
tl-leepin. place is a ,reat i">pl^« l^^^^i U ""' ^"^-^-^-^ the draperv^
iK-st of cn-annstances, is n.ore or less co f„' „V t'f ^'r^"^ "'"'- t'-
"jade .s a nustake that tho:^sands of p,.,p,rn a^e for ^ "j ''''' ^'"^^ ^""^^'•''^'^'^^ >-'v
place. Most of the strn,»-.e in th.e world s trvin't \ ' •'^°"" ""' ^''^^^ '^ ^heir
«o back contented and take the place as^i.n ot I ."^ '°"" °"' ^■'■^^' '^ ''^"'•- ^^^'ttcr
we n.ay lose our own without oettin- his T \ ■'""'^ ^° -^^ some one else's place
Hi,.ht on. the Southern Pacific Rai£>i , TV' '' ^'"' "'^' '^^^^>- "^ ""^t.ke. fo U>at
Presidential ean,pai^n, at least c^H^^l^ S:!^ ^.'''^r'l '"^ "'^^'^ ^^^' ^'"-■^ --
one hundred thousand present occupants , ' "'^'' ^"'"■^ ^° «-^^' ^he berths of th'e
pie of the world I .i,^,,,,, o^ tE'^b^T^t; ' m ^'^';"^ ^'' °^" ' ^^" ^'^ «^^-
H>ur I have pa,ssed the latitude and Ion "t de far '" ""'": "'^''^-^'-- --' the first
etnrn I w.ll count the weeks and davs tluifs .„k1 betw "'""' 'T ''""■'' ''"■^ ''^«'" to
front door from which, on the evenin. of n 1 1^ ^^^ ""''^ ^'^ '"--t step of the
1
r
1
"v\
: ■
CHAl'TKR III.
PARADISE Oh THE PACIFIC.
IT was two o'clock in tlic afteniooii wlieii at San Francisco I stepped aboard tlie
Alameda, of the Oceanic Steamship Company, our Captain Morse, one of tlie most
j,aniial, popular and able commanders who ever sailed the seas. He and the
Pacific Ocean are old actiuaintauces. He lias been in seventeen hurricanes and
safely out-rode them. Profusion of flowers were sent up the <ran<r-plank and the n.asses of
people on the wharf who had come to see their friends off, waved handkerchiefs and threw
kisses and cried and lauj^hed '>s is
usiuil when an ocean steamer is
about to start. The gon<r .sounded
for the leavinj^- of all those from
the shi])'s deck who did not e.\pect
to accompany us. The whistle
blew for looseninjr from the wharf
and the screw bej^an to whirl and
the shij) moved out toward the
Golden (iate.
The Pacific Ocean met us with
waves hi<;h enouj^h to send man\-
to their bcrtlis, and to arouse in tlie
rest of us the question why .so
roupjli a sea should be called the
Pacific. And for two da>s tlie roll,
the jerk, the rise, the fall, the lunge,
the tremor, the quake spoiled the
appetite and hid from sii);ht the ma-
jority of the pa.ssen<jers. But after
the third day the ocean and tin
ship ceased tlieir wrestling-, and
Peace smoothed the waves ami
hushed the winds, for tlie sank
Lord who took a short walk upon
rough Galilee takes a longer walk
upon Pacific seas. Different from
most voyages, there seemed no dis-
agreeables on board. Fvnough pas-
sengers to avoid loneliness ; not sn
nuiny as to be crowded. What
difference between a sea-voyag'
now, with all comforts afforded au'i
the table containing all the lu.xuric-
CAPTAIN MOKSK, ill' THi; Al.AMIUlA.
(74
that call
in vessel
ftdl-curv
Poli
tioiis for
would th
Islands, \
nil one t(
is a fo(jl.'
God and
foreign s;i
it not be
for eating
when for
do so, b()\
diNgustiuji
and in a
islands wc
been a mii
cruel t\- an
nation.
Ti. \.\.\
yri:s-i
Ihit Ihe
aries came
eiglit \ear>
people gp
into the c
and 2 6,f)n
dren into s
pioposing ;
tian ci vi li:
wliicii now
a beautiful ;•
acy over the
i'^ts, who wa
Neither
tile present <
alone. Hocn
Pi'iilrol than
'lenied indep
Willi 1,1 imy^, J
*'''>\trmnent
island hnnigl
take possessif
fi'i" coaling ai
THE WORLD AS SEEX TO-DAV
that can allure a weak appetite, an.l tlu.se <lavs wla-u the- ,ni ' ^^
-"•'<• ^''-^ '-■ would be as ciespaiX' s ' s ['' ,""", ''"'" '""""^ ^^^isuL, I
Islands, wIuMM,ul„;sclyi„,n..clJ J ,l.{vinttt^?^ ''"' ^'"^^ "'" ''^^-^•-->'
"" *'"^' ^" '<'"-v „,e. (.)„,,„ ,;„„„, , i„ ,'■',;" ^^■<^"';'.^' "^ ■">• P--- countn- ? There is
■s a fool." All that ha .een doue ^o 1 e H n ' t'!" ,'''* ''^ ' ''■■""'^^"'' '-^"^^ ^'-^''-^kaua
<;'"i aud the u.issiouanes \ f , • ";*^''^'""'^" '^'^'"'1'^ has been done bv our oracious
/^>rei.u sailors brought ::,„ 1^,^ " J:;;f "\'^'-"':^"^ ^-' ^''^ ->-ds the n.oscp.ito;^ ^:
it not been A.r t,K ^^.^pel, thL i ^ u CZ:^'^^^'] '"'""^"^ ^'-> ^" ' ''-•''• "ad
for eatnio- bauanas ^^ ""■ ^^'>'"d stih have been puttiuo- to death woiueu
when forbidden to
do so, JMiwin,!^ to a
di.s;,'iistin->- idolatrx-,
and in all of ilie
islands would have
hcen a niidni,t;!it c-f
cruelty aud abonii-
natiou.
''■'' \n.m:.\.\'i'I()\
m'i:sT[().\.
Ihit the mission.
aries came, and in
t'ixht years 12,000
people o-a tile red
into the churches,
and 26,000 chil-
dren into schools
proposinjr a Chris-
tian civilization,
which now liolds
a Ijeautifni snnreni-
^^y over the Sandwich Islands There -n-,. f„
-^ ->.o want the Oueen, and\un,e ^ii d^rr' ''Tr '" '" '''^'''''^' ^^'"•"- --'-
^, Neither of then, will triun.ph. l' H^ d b"' 7"'" '""'"' ''''' ^^^'^--'^ -i"^-
' ^' P'-csent ooverun.eut is an autepast ''h v •" "• ' ''•''"'"'^^ ''>' ''^'"'^ <*'' -''i^''
'■'''>"^-- H.'canse a nation is not ^d'antic is u, i , '"'""; " '^'""^^ ^^"""«'' ^o stand
-n.rol than a n.an wid, linnted ^.Z:Z Zi^r: f'' '' r"'"""' ""' '-- -'^
''-'- ■"'lq>c-ndence. If (;,k, ,,,, i„UMKled H >n 1 b , """ ''''''-'^' ■'^''^'-'^^ ''-
;r""'' '-avc planted it hundreds of n.ile un r ''" '" '''^' ^'"''^^^' '^^•''^-- "^^
(.')\rnin.,..,f ; , . "^^ ncarc, our American coast.
THK A..AM,:,U .' : XK TH K .;o, : „ . ,MTp
J"Masu,ook.,lU,.t,Iayor,n,r,lc,,anure."
island
ta!
IS not so hunyrv f<
brou-ht from iSi
;•■ '"ore land that it needs to be fed on a fc
The I'nited States
possession of the island, aud
)o miles awa\-. Xo d
"■ ''o.ilniu- and wat
cnno- of our ships. Witl
.ijive us trouble when w.
ii'.irer that some other f(
cw chunk.s of
1 some ironsides hon
orei,t,n] nation sliail
want to run into Honolulu for
I our new navy and the
'W'
76
THE EARTH GIRDLED.
aid of our iVici'ds on the i.-laiid, wu v.ould kiio-,k into .siiiithcrt,-ns sticli forei*,Mi impertinence.
Beside tliat, if Ae l)ee<)ine a- a natioi, a '^ix'ui maritime power, and we will, none of the
islands of the I'acific would d. dine us si;elterinj^r harbor or supplv lor our ships. What
thon-li they beloVi.:.;' d to olh..;- iiations, they would sell ns all we want. It is not necessary
to own a store in onler to purchase <j'>ods from it.
l^.^\\•AMA^• i'Ku, iudss.
The.se arc veneral)le islands. Those who ca;; translate the lan^niafre of tlie rocks and
the lanf,nia.<,ve of human hones sa\- that these islands have been inhabited 1400 years at
least. Wiien fo uid in 177S, they were old places of hnman habitation. The mcst unique
i;Iust';it;:,n in all llie world of what pure and simple Christianity can do is here. Before
i'lis supernatural force be.^an, infanticide was com-
mon, and not by mildest form of assa.ssination,
but buried ali\e. Demented people were nun--
di red ; old peojjle were allowed to die of nej>lect.
I'olyjramy in its worst form rei<-ned ; and it was
as cus>- for a man to throw away his wife as to
])itcli an a]iple core into the .sea. Superstitions
blackened the earth and the heavens. Christianity
found the Sandwich Islands a hell, and turned
^ \ them into a semi-heaven. As in all the other re-
H^ ^^ X Hi«'i« where Christianity triumphed, it was ma-
ligned by those who came from other lands to
practice their inicpiities. Loose forei<,Miers were
auj^ercd because they were hindered in their dis.so-
Intcuess by a new element they had never before
confronted.
" There is Honolulu," cried many voices this
moruin.i;- from the deck of the .\lameda. These
islands, called by many an archipelago, I call the
"Constellation of he Pacific," An- they seem not
so much to have -rown np, as alij^hted from the
heavens. The bri.^ht, the redolent, the nmbr.i-
.m >ti>, the fioralized, the orcharded, the forested,
th. :.'ctnre,s(iue Hawaiian Islands! They came in
n )'' 1 IS as much as we came in upon them in
. '' ' iiiorninjr. Captain Cook no more discovered
them : , 7.S than we discovered thini to-l.v. He .saw them for the first time for himself,
an<l we see them for the first time this mornin.<,r for ourselves. More fortunate are we than
Captain Cook. He looked out upon th-iM from a filthv boat, and wound up his experiences
by fnruishin- his body as the chops ar.,i „t. 3k.> of a savage's breakfast. We from a gracefd
ship ah-ht amid herba-e and arborescenc^ . and shall depart with the -ood wishes ar.d
prayers Ironi all the islanders.
HKui OKKrci.xi, corRTi:.sii:.s.
.As you approach the harbor there is in sicrht a ]on>; line of surf rollinir over reefs .f
coral. Hi-h mountains, hurricane-cleft and lishtniug-split, but their wounds bandao.d
UK. T.u.M.\(;i: (IN sTi;\MKK .\I,.\^n•a).\
CKOSSINC, Till'; I'ACII'ie.
THE WORLD AS SKKX TO-DAY.
Oovennneut, and Clnc.f h^ ee lud 1 I ^ T', '' I''" :''""''"'' ^^-'^•- "^1,. Provisional
fonnerlv tl.e Palace. TI.^ ^ , Jl ^ ti c V '' /'"' ''"r"'"' ''•"■''""-^' ^^•'-•'' —
U..n n.sc.. and all the Conncim^st:';. ,;';,;:? lie U' f "'■" "^ ^^"^" '!'• -■"^■- -"
--. S.U ..e an t.;e-;;;:^
HANnnR OF Hnvor fri'
I' was aniazin. t . ^ n v it 1 s \ f ?'"" "';' '"'^^ "^''"' ''^''f P-P'^^ -f n.anv land.C
'-allv a ..atherin.. of old frien . P"bl>slnn,t, n,v sennons for vears and it was
n. nveloi; e^ [;; Ha ccf^n - s^^ -l "'ir^^^,^^"":' ''^f'^' -' '" ^'^ P"'Pit and with
a^ I never before witnes' 1 j j \ TIuT "" '"'^"''"-" '' "'''•^ ^"^'> '-^ '^^-^
78
THK EARTH GIRDLED.
Wliat a l)(.\vitcliiiuut of
palm trees u ,m a I.ewitcl.nuut of scener> ! Wl.at heavti.iess of iu.spitalitv ' The
llawaiiaiis have no sii])eiiors for .t^c'iiialitv
-ss. One Hawaiian
, . ;'"" l<ni(lness in all the world. In plivsical
l)resence they are wondrons speeiniens of ^n,,,,! JK-aJth and stalwartnes
conld wrestle down two of our nation.
A I.WI) ()}■■ yj.OWVMS.
Kanks of flowers white as snow, or
November nijrhts, or red as battlefield
lelds.
ne as skies, or yellow as sunsets, or starrv as
. ... , . . , '^ heaven of flowers. Flowers entwined in
ma dens ha,r, and tw,sted ronn.l hats, and hnn,^. on necks, an<l embroidered on capes and
.sack.s. rnl)eroses, ganlenu.s, magnolias, passifloras, trumpet-creepers, olean.lers, oeraniums,
NIGHT SCENE IN THE CRATER OK THE VOLCANO OE KII.AUEA, HAWAII.
tlichsias, cx^nvolvuli and hibiscus red as fire. Jessamine, which we in America carefullv copx
to chmb the wa 1 just once here running up and down and jumping over to the other s";
and coming back agam to jump down this side.
Night-blooming cereus, so rare in our northern latitude we call in our neighbors to see
It, and they must c,n>e right away or never .see it at all, here in the.se islands Scattering it!
opulence of perfume on a 1 the nights; and, not able to expend enough in the darkness a' o
flooding the day. Struggling to surpass each other all kinds of tree.^ whether of fruit ;rr
rich garniture, mango, and orange, and bamboo, and alligator pear, and umbrella trees and
bread fruit, and algabora, and tamarind, and all the South Sea exotics. Rouc^h cheek o
t.nu'n^'r""'^'' '^'"'"^ ""'""• '''" ^™'''^^ ^"^"'"^ '"-"- of;romati<; o
THE WORLD AS .SHKX TO-DAY.
79
TMH woui.d's (iui;.\Ti;.sr \(.u\\,,
.K> .OSS ,„„,„,,„.„ s„„K.,i„K, i„ .,K.i,. s„„„ u,c,. s, „„.,:' t \ s,:;;:;;:
sla„.ls a„. I,.,, ,lu^ ,„ss „,, tl,c X.vi„„l„r Islan.ls ,„„1 tl„„ ,1,„ I.'iji Islan, „ ,|^ |>
Hawaiian Islaucs. 1 lev are Titms nul «■!,,. n ti., ,-. i • i '"""^ aiui uitti tiie
the eanu fiiiaii, ,oes, as' ,o it': ■;;:;;! •ti;';^" ' 'n^:; ^^ri, J:;!: ;:':"^ ^;i'r^
on V the work of volcanoes winch ill tlidi- sport are apt to' i;; L r^i ' ;; W . i:
.canoes are assigned to the destructive agencies we see Iiere what thev c n < as '-c f
tects. See here what they liave huilded. All „„ and <lown flu..' ; , .
volcanoes. Rocked in cradle of eartlup.ake, tiiev Jw" ^: .f-'-'V'" "^
their last breath, and the mounds under v-liich tl ■ Lm C 1 ^ "' 1 ''"" '°
r^ooins. Hut the ,.atest Hvin, volcano of al, the el^^h t^l^l^i rrt.^ Kn!!;;::'
^\hat a liissmK, be ovv.„s, tun.blin.,, soarin<,, thui.derin<, force i Kilau " ' I .ke of
he tc,I. T ,e> all s,K,„te,l „„passio„cd sctinict. S,,,,,. w.rc candidates r„r Hk- th,X
I r„w„ because »f „„e prc^,„i„c„cc and „,l,ers for oIIkt s„|,eriori.ies. li m „1 „ °
e «;:; fo'cc;'":r.i'''°'"r'T,"f°'' ''''-"---' '■i-.ed.o'.„ .!„« „, .e : ;
•t.
CHAl'TliR IV.
PRESIDENT AND QUEEN.
CHK chamlKrlain, cu,n. to invito us u, the residence- of tlie ev-0„ee., I.kI
appioaeln..! tlie wide-opeii ( Oors tliioiK.Ii a \ -lul ..f ,v>1m. f- i i
-coa.ua, and anud .{owes that ,J tu^t^, ' ^ r.r r'""? "'"
tropical snn can paint. We were usiun d into the rova hd ' ''"' "
snrr.mnded l,v a oronn of distino„i.h,.d , ,- ^ , '^ '"■'''' Ia<l> s reception-room, wliere,
and if we look fe 'lowers we Hud
.'!<>wei>, and if we lon^ f„,- thnins
we fuid thorns, slie narked, "I
liave found in tli- patii o' life
c! icfls- the flowers. I do ..^.
liow any one surrounded 1,n as
iuan> hlessiiios as many of us jios-
scss could be so uii.^rateful ;i to
conip: in,-' She said it was s.-nie-
tliiii-r to lie remembered tliank-
fiilly that for fifty years there was
no revolution in the islands. She
has full faith that tlie provisional
Roveniiuent is ouh- a temporary
afTair, uid that slie will
cupy tlie throne.
She asked iier servant to show
me, as somctliin,o; I had not seen
before, a royal adornment made up
from the small bird with a lar<>e
name, the Melitlireptes Pacific'Ji.
This bird, I had read, had under
i*^ win<r a sino;le feather of very
ex(iuisite color. Tlie Queen cor-
rccted ni\- information by sayincj
that it was not a sinjrle feather, hu't
a tuft of feathers, from under the
'^^■'"S: f>f the bird from wbicli the
icxQv,-Ks Lu.uuK-n.Asi. AS .SHK KhCKivHi) IS. adonimeiit was fashioned into a
(S<J)
af^ain oc-
THK WORLD AS SEE\ TO-DAY.
81
cliaiii of beaiitv for tla- nock Sli.. <.w,i- .• 1
Ion.., illness ,.i„.,...., ,,.,. ^;,., ti.i^'t,: ^[u^^^' ^^ ::-^' '^ T'"' ?'" ■'^-
...Ulv on nKU.ysnlyc.cts p.rtainin. to tlu. ...sent and Iw }u^ '"""' ''''''' ""' "'^^"'■
l;.atcn with stonns of ol,lo,nv and ^S:: pi- ;' ta ' i;^;:,:"^" i'' 'T' ^■""■- '"^ '•^■^■'
'"•" ' 'H- a lyinj; in.poslor. Thorn.' '^ ^^ ='sl»nKln„ uas called l,v
.KITcrson was styled an infulel ; and since
those tnnes we are said to have had in the
I lilted States presidency a hlood-thirstx-
"'^'"> ■'' 'liunkard, and at least two liber-
tines; and if anybody in l.roniinent place
and etTective work has csca] ed, " let hini
si>cak, for him have I ofilMided." After
an exchanoe of anto-ra].hs on that dav
ill Honohiln, we parted.
I'KKSII.KXT noi.i.; CUKHTS Mis CI KSTS.
At one o'clock Chief Jnsticejndd came
to the hotel with liis carria-e to take ns to
the mansion of Mr. Dole, thecominir Presi-
dent. It was onl>- a niinnte after'otir en-
trance when Mr. Dole and his accom-
plishe.l and brilliant ladv appeared with a
cordiality of welcome that mad,- „s f^^^]
■■"•eh at home. Mr. Dole is a , .ouno d
Liinstian man, deeply interests in all 1--
li.^ioiis affairs, as well as secular; Isis y,n.
vatelife beyond criticism ; honored bvboth
political parties; talented, nrbane, attrac-
"ve, stron- and fit for an v jiosition where
cnnscientionsncss and cnltnre and down-
ri.^ht earnestness are requisites. It was to
me a „,atter of snrpri^. that at a time when
puhtics are red-hot in tlu Hawaiian Islands
"teJn:;.!!;!:,::;:;^;,;^;;;::^ 'Vt::^:H r '■'' ^•"^^^'^' ^ "^^"" -^ -- -^^ ^^
-'eired to'the tremen;i!; ^.e";^:^ :::! ^T'- T f ^^ "■-"•<'^-- ^hen I
renu.rkable how nuanv of the bns en of 1 so ^^^ ^ T^ ''"' "' ■■and, he said it was
tl-r time, free of all change t. U,e ,s , e f ''"'' ''"""•^' '" '^^''^ ^ '""'^l' "f
'•^'ieved to be patriotic ^Il^^Cltir;^.::^ ^- -^-t he
ColIe,.e, Mas.sachnsetts, and when Tsked im if • '•' •'•' '^ r'"'^^^' °^ ^^'''"-"■^
oi that college, was as elevated .n. M J / L ' ' '^ J '^''.'l"""" -^ ■ ^''-^'^i^'-t Hopkins.
SANl,FuKn P. ,„„,,,, PRLsnuCNT OF TMK
'O.IM ni.lC OK HAWAII.
a^ (iarfieid did, that to sit
as that of President Prarfield
and talk with him on literarv matters
on one end of a 1
loir
le replied, " Ves ! I think.
with President Hopkins on the otl
would be somethino- like a liberal ed
ler
^^
m
' J
iication.
ii
t
1
82
THK KARTH GIRDLKD.
TIk' wilV of llii'comiiij; rrtsidcut is a i-'uanii ol lovili
iRss, and is an artist withal
walls arc partly dfcoiatcd vvitli Irt pLMicil, And tlioitj^di under Ikt protest, as thoii},di tl
Ikr
R- room
was
unworthy of a visit, Chief Justia- Jiuld took uw to lur studio, where she passes uiueli of
her time in sketcliinj,^ and painting. The ride I took afterward with tl
and Chief Justice Jndd allowed me still oth
lecomiufj; I'resident
or opportunity of formin},^ an elevated opinion d
overument. The cordialitv with which we had bet
the ])reseut head of the Hawaiian C
received by the present ruler aiRl the fonuer Queen interested us nK)re and i
present condition and the future happiness of tin- Sandwich Islands.
MKAKIXC, (lOTII SII)i;s ON HAWAIIAN A KI'AIKS.
n
uore in the
Aware of the different wa\ s of lookiu" at tl
iiusjs an(
1 of ])uttin»4 thiuirs, I resolved to
jret the ,lor> of Hawaiian affairs from oppcjsite sides. We have always taken it for <rranted
that two and two
make four. And
yet two and two
may be so placed as
to make twenty-
two. The fij^nire 9
is only the fiijure (t
turned upside down.
There are not nian\
thinj^s like the fijfure
f*^'
r-^- •>-...
e same wliicli-
^.^MT^
<r'r-"-t^ - ^»
V'"^~iAJt
^. til
e\ er side is up.
The different ac-
counts I here pre-
sent are re])orts from
different sland-
])oints.
I had opportu-
nity of earnest and
pr(j|on}.>;e(I conversa-
tion with a royalist,
educated, truthful,
of hiirh moral cluu-
The followiiij.,'
NATIONAf, PAI.ACK, HONOLULU.
acter, born in the.se islands, and of great observation and experience,
■conversation took ])lace between u.s.
Qucslion: " Do you think the e.x-Queen a good woman?"
A,n'a<cr: " I have seen the Queen very often. I have been one of her advisers and
my wife has been with her much ^ the time from childhood, and has .seen her mornin<r
noon and night, and under all circumstances, and neither of us has ever witT.e.ssc'Ii
anything compromising in her character. She has made mistakes, as all make the ,1 "but
she IS fully up to the moral standard of the world's niler.s. She is the impersonation of
kindness, and neither my wife nor myself, nor any one else has ever lieard her .say a word
against any one. In that excellence .she .. pre-eminent. In proof of her good character
I have to state the fact that there is not a household in Honolulu that did not feel honored
by lier presence. If she liad been snrl, a corrupt character as .some correspondents have
Tfllv WORLD AS SHHX TO-DAY.
icsolvfd to
«3
iiids
icproMMitcd her, I do not tliinl; tliat tl... Iw^t .., i
0o's/w„.- "Do you think she has bt-cn nnjnMlv trcatc-.P"
.///W-.V7-.' "I do. Slic lias bcc-n most infanio'iislv iii.,t..,i u-l.;i •, ,
IHacv, and with no .xcnse for inl.rfVrenc. the Tni i , ' '""' '^''""' "'"^ "'
<"■ "H.n hack.d np by the United Su" Mi t t ^^.T'' T" l""'"'" "^ «'""''
I'irsident, and sent a committee to the minn . , ' ''""■'' '' ^'''"'"^ '""> ^-''o"^^' •»
....other ease of Naboth W:;!^ r r Ti^^m, ^'k^ '• t-^T' '" '''''' "" ^'■"^^- '^ ^'^'^
pah.ce and the ofllees and the salaries I n ,ffl ] '^'''\'\''''' '''■^■- ■"^» ^vlu) wanted the
....til she I.ad to nH,rt,.aKe tt t I ft 1 er o n- ' '""•'"" ■^''^" "'" '■"'"^■^••' "' -'''^t^'
present her side of tht case si ' m i ' "'."'"I'^'T'^'^ ^" «" ^" ^Va.hin,4o„ and
tl-". and in a pnbiic n.an fes o d cl ml she 1', "' ''"' ''''' ^"'^ ^^■'"'"" '" ^^^-^'^
of the ■ New Constit.Uion " ShJ had ",;;:' "h^ V'^'"'' ""' ^'^''^ '" ^''^ '"='"-
a riKd.t to a throne ; bnt bv sh r pr^ct whe^^^ "" "' "'•■ "''"' "" ''''''' '''-^^
troops drove her fron. the palace ook posse- o. 1, •"'■'^"•^''^■^•""^^ ^'•^- ^'"itcd States
government." ^ ' P°-'^''^-''«'«" ^'^ the armament, and inangnrated a new
THK KovAi.isr \-n;\v.
.7//.vrt
vv .
tl '|A
The Qneen's restoration by a majority of at least ten to one
...yalists arc will,„„t ;xcq,li„„ ■ ' " i, ! " °' "' '"'"' '"' ' - «'>' «'«> are
(■..iU,i States ,l,e ,„„j„ri.J «o ve n^ n ,1 tll , : Pv f'^' """'T" '" " '"'"'"•'■'«■ '" "-
oMRl.t to have ,I,e sa.Me ,,r,Vile«e c,f lennr' ^ ' ''"''''" '" ""• """"""" '»">"'l»
<>,,■„,„, .... Are the Hawaiia„s |,r„ix.rl> iohler, ,.r ,„„„.,1,>..
A..f:;L»;^ttr,re!:s-ir™;:^;z-^ .•
..er .:^s:;i.;^';:^'-'i;!^';;rztr;;er "^iiisr- 1;;;;^^™""'' "-" '- -'-^ »■■"
which the wrong can be righted she l,-,.; J. 7 -T \\ . '" ^ '^'"""'^ ''''^ '''">■ ^^'i^' '»
expects to resnnfe her thron H^ e ta e v n V^"^ ' '''"'^'' "' '"'''''' ''''''''''
tl.e sympathy of tLe whole world. bel e" " retMSicsT" ''"'/"'," '•"' •'^'"' ^'^"^^^^''^^
for others. One style of government wil not do l?uT^ f ""' '"'"''• ""^^ '"-"archies
»or the United StatL, a m^onarchXTLe Hawaii!: JISs -^ '' ''''''■ ^ '■^^"""■^ *^ '^^
1 inis ended my conversation with the royalist.
THK REPUBLICAN SIDE OF THE CASE
a.sked the royalist. ^ '""^'' ^^'^ ^^"'^ questions that I had
84
THE EARTH GH^DLED.
The following conversatimi IkIwvc-ii the annexationist and myself took place:
Oucsiioii : " Do yon think the Oiieen is fit to r(.'i,<;n?"
Aiis-arr: " Xo ! Hv her si,c,riiin- the Opinin License and the bill for the Lonisiana
lyotlers-, anil b\- other acts, she has proved herself unfit to .t^oveni."
Oi,,sli,n, : " I),. x(,n think that the present controversy W(,n]d he relieved, if the cau.-
tion HI dispnte were left to the votes of all the people on the island?"
.///,v,-,v/-.- -'X,,! The Chinese, the Jainuiese and the i'ortn-uese wotdd join with the
natives and vote down the best interests of the Hawaiian Islands."
(hi,-^!i,>„ : "What do xon think of the present attitnde of the Tnited Slates Govern-
ment with respect to tlie Sandwich Islands?"
.\„su;r: " .M,,st inifortnnate. We are waitiu- for a cliamre of administration at
Washur'ton. Vonr President !i;'.s nnwiselv handled our affairs. We want an administra-
:vrAiN- STRKKT. iinvoT.rrT-.
tion at \yashin-ton which will favor a.i annexation, and vonr next Presidential election
may settle our island alTairs, and settle them in the ri^iit wav."
On.slion: "What is the present fcelin- between rovalists and those in favor ef the
])ro\isional t^overnnieiit ? "
.//Avr.vv-.- "VerN- bitter ru.d l.econ.in,.,^ more and more dai.Men.ns, a.ul -reat i.rndence
and wisdom will have to be eiiiidoved or there will be blood shed."
Tims ended m\- coiu-er^ation with the annexationist.
As 1 said in a ,.revioiis letter, without takiiiu- the side either of rov;.list „v
tionist, the Hawaiian h
lands will yet i)e a republic by itself What
ir anuexa-
:ui a
mazing \\\\\\<^ that
e :
Liiuisiana
f the qiKs-
1 witli tlu-
s (io\c'ni-
tratioii at
cliiiinistra-
i
i
ClCCllDII
)r (if tlu-
)riulincc-
a.nncxa-
ills;- that
THK \\()RLD AS SEEX TO-DAY. s-
aft.r all tl,e trouble tl.c r„iicd States C.ovcnnnent has had with the Clnnese p„n„latio„
■•;- w.thu. our K.nlcrs, try.uo- this and that leoislatiou to suit their ease, auv A„,eriea„
statesman should propose, l,y the annexation of the Sandv.-ieh Islands, to add u, our popu-
at.on the 32,000 Clnnese and the .3,.,.,. Japanese now livin, iu those islau.ls. If we w nt
Shn uU^^^^ ""^ '•^•^^•- '""-•^ ^'- '-'> '--
HAWAIIAN <aNl.S
From what Ihave seen and heard in this u.y journey I have come to the conclusion
hat It wdl be a dire day when the American Government hopelessly mixes itself up with
Hawanau amurs. It w<„dd be disaster lo them, and perplexitv au.l useless expense I our-
s case, sentiments that
H
aiuis o
d,'
and
Mind
liad better be observed bv Eu"lish. C
your own htisir.css " are, in tli
xcrmau and American j-overument
a
CHAPTER V.
ISLAND OF LEPE;iS.
.HK most of the world's heroes and heroines die nnreco^nized. Tliev will Imve
to wan nntil the roll is ealled on the other side of the Dead Sea. iTa e een
no celebrafon of the courage and fidelity of Rev. S. Waiwaiole wl o d e^l two
Pahio who iZelf ;" T 'T. ""'"'"'"^ ^' ^'" ^'-^"^^-'^'^ ^^'--^^' "- o'f le R Mr
A TKIIifTK TO DAMIKN'.
That moral hero completely transformed the Isle of Lepers It wis l^^fnr. 1,; ,
burial .J^^iJ^^X,^iT"' f "" '"^'"'- "' ""'"•■'" "«■■ ■•-■» '"•■
God ,,a,i;'?'' ',"::;;r." i';;:„;rcZ.'"'-' °"'' '"■""""'" "■"""• "'^- ™'« °^ "■^' ^" -[
TIIK KKC,I.\rK AT ArOT.OKAI.
leper'colonv'ttf '''" l^'^f'^T] '" ''^""^'^^"'^ ''''' ^'^"^"^>"" "^ ^'^ -t--- ^ecanse it is a
eptr colmn . It ,s a small island, bnt it contains a amtinent of woe. It wa estihli- 1-cd in
ine.cy. Uprosy was so rapidly advancing in the Sandwich Islands that the el^.^e po^nia; o
(86) '■
THE WORLD AS SEEN TO DAY. g
was imperiled. To control and extirpate the <diastlv Pvil ^
itself on an island not easily accessible L^H, , -- I ''''' necessary to pnt it by
as possible. In one vear ^t^t^lt^ To 'TT'V''''' ''' "'"'^^ ''^'^ con.fortable
Every week each pati'ent is alow d four !„' so s 1. " """' ^-vernn.ent $55,000.
of sn.ar, or if preferred fron, five to . Z 'is oV^^^^^ T." ^"""'-^ "'' ''''^ "'^ 1^«"-'
wln-ch is a near approach to bread Z^f.^t::^''':T ^T""'\"' ''''''''^
P-.slepers; they have the -ni::^^;^^^^^;- ^-^^
S::;,^;^ ^r:;;;:';:-,:r-^^^^^^^ ;^- contracting pities .pers.
tion and inflannnation and ^ ^ene 3^ fi X^r" ^''^■^'■^,^'-^ ^"^'^ P-tnle and scarifica-
1-as successfully fou.ht back t t o 1 t; pf ,'• '''' ''' ^ 'T '"'"• ^'^''^"^^- ^^-''-'^
P"t back into its case its s,,r<ncaT Ltru enr nulV "t'"' "" '^ ^'"'"^ ''' I'''^'^'-'"''
u-treated from this island of de.th Z^ ^ H H V "'■''• '" '''' ""^'^'■"'"^^^t boat and
88
THE EARTH GIRDLED.
cin:i':Ri-ri., riiordu doomkd.
What most strikes a visitor at Molokai is the placidity and cheerfulness of the victim-
"tlT 1 f r' • ^^- '^^^•'^"^^^'^■'- ^V^^'>"ies may fill the hearts of these lepers, the^ appear to
he beholder as n: a resignation that anion.Us to c,ood cheer. Thev se;^ anu "tl "
happ,est people on earth. Manvof then, on horseback, con.e .allopin, do -n 1 ™a^
^vZ: w'] 'T ""^"'^ '^' '^^- ''''' "'^'■'- """-' -^>- -^"'^^ itself to dr n ':
stances. We have often seen people who thron<,h puhnonarv or Briolu's disease werl
ce.tamofearlydem.se and yet with a n.irth b,.bbHnc, and resonant. The fact is we .n ,
IH.\VAr.>.:R NA..U,ONTrS. AT KISC. KAI.VKAVr.S COFFIN, HONOUf.r.
all die, a.ul yet we ..uu.aoe to keep cheerful, a..,| why ..ot those stn.ek by leprous fatali-
have sn..sh.ne i.i their coiintL-nance a.id talk ^ 'eprotis latalu.^
sc^es of those cast o..t .. this disease a,,:f ii .h:i.^:;t::^:;iir';;::;b:; tj::7z.
elc.ets, hv.no. on the eo... which passers-bv n.ay flin.,^ to the.n, while d.v b d n the
a., ro t.n. al.ve. Ut ns lha.:k (^od that th.se sn.itte,. ;ith i..cn,;ble sor^' ln\t' ^1
w.ch Islands, have ho..,es, and schools, and eh..rcl,es, and food and nurses \u\u r
a..d parterres of sweetest flowers under arches of bU est skies ' •^"^^'^^^°"-^^-
reinaii.in;.^
': ■•"rryino^,
cousin. Hoi
'VIS also s
.111(1 there \
liis ."oyal ec
him outsidi
-"^'rs. Xapel;
•^(•puii b.i-e.s.
pi<ibabl\- a ■
^"l)d thing
island by tl
Harrisbnrg
Liiiinent co\
have their
THE WORLD AS SEEN TO-DAY.
re
tiuus as the boat swung off
from its inooriutrs. He
took a Ril>le and some law
books with Iiini into Iiis
dreadful exile, and the
pra>-ers of ehnrches were
offered that he niiuht have
conrajre and peace in the
retuainin- da>s of his earth-
':^- '-^rryinfr. Queen Emnia's
cousin, Honorable ^[r. Kaeo,
H-is also sent to Molokai \
'iiid there was no power ii.
Iii-^ royal connection to keep
iiiui outside of that island
STATi-K OK kami.:hamkiia 1 , iio.Ndi.n.r
■\[r< V.,r, 1 r ;■;,■■"""■'• -Aunu,. kamkhamkha i, Hon, .,.,;.,•.
1.-.I tiling it .n„M l>o if all I c t,r„,"! ".'';""'' ''" V «"">»t I,ci,, ll,i„ki„f, „l,.,t a
i-la...! by tbcnsdve.,. S ,rf\ M, "^ , "^ , w "• """" """'' "^ ''"' °" »""'
, ^^ " ' iiiioui to provide
lave their le-^islature and
res State and national. The TJn'ited St
such a r\Io
con,!>Tess and board
kai, and the moral 1
of aldermen and ari
ates r,o\--
icpers sent there could
in
■ 1
if
my and nav
:ill of
'"-•prosy is ;ijn
'■iK toe, or 111
^nriace, and i
"• tl'e patient
^'.^nS of pllyj;
1^1'r'ni.s fever,
aim, unices tin
^1
0'f
THK WORLD AS SEEN TO-DAY.
tlic- saiiK- blotch. But while tl.,. ii •• , .,
"■ — lle.1 ''Isleofl,.;. Ls^^'^^^^^^^^^^ ^-1 out and sent to
-'^v nerds ,s a Molokai, „r Isle of Upers. ^^ ''''" '■'■'■'>■ '^'••'^^' '"'<' "''lion
'■'■■i'iiOSV IilACXosili.
Coin-crsatioii about It.-i)n)s\- uitl, „ c
tiiirslidii : "Ju wh-it- im-f - r .1 'T ■
'".-'■'■.■ •• .. :,^::L';r ;;;.,'':™r ' -'"^^ ''■'"■■"■ '■^^^" "» -■* ?■•
ihicslKni : " r tlioiiolit it >,.„ . 1-
-•■lace, ami it is unhnpressible. Pric^ it , , ' '?T "^'"" '^'" ''"*'>■ '' ■'^I'i"*"^
'-I- patient's bodv nJav be in pc i^Lt It' h't' 'T "" '^ '" ^^'"^ '^^ ^'^ -^
-.^ns of phvsical disorder disappear a 1 e il '' '""'"'" ^'''>'- ^^-'^'tinies all the
Mtous fbver, and that will thLw ^l " b'n h 'S'" ^""- '^'"" ^''^^^ ^^•'" -"- ^
— ""ces the projvress of the disease." Then 1 l^iif ^v'^V "", "'"''^ -"P''atically
ail s,,^r„, of .skni disturbance disappear, but
TIIH WORLD AS SKI-;x T()-I)AV
Ilk
93
after the following Icpn.us iVvcr the case is worse Uku. helore. So each retreat ..f the
disease is lollcnved h\- a iinire decided advance."
Question : " Is it painful?"
.///v.-.vr • "X., That is one „f the mercies, l-n,,,, tl,,- first assault of ti,.- nla..„c to
loiir ot death there is an absence of ])liysical sulferinj;-."
Oitcslioii : " Hut is there no mental depression ? "
.//Avr.vv.- "Oh yes. .\t the first aapiaintaiice of the fact that tlie disease is on liini
a horrid ^dooni settles upon the patient. I'.ut after a while a sli.^dit hope of recoverv is
•".ru. and the incipient leper tries all forms of cure, an.l no form is .so ahsnr.l that it will
not lecommeml itself as worthy of experiment. .Vud then all lli. li,,,. the patient thinks
It iii.iy l)e somethiii<4 l)esides le])ros\-."
^-;";'-f7; "^^'''^'' ^^ ^-i^^i"' "' ll>- «li--ase is first chai-e.l witli having the plague, I
should think lie would resent it."
Ansarr: " Vcs and the Kn-lish law makes it a libelous case lor the courts, if a man is
unjustlv chai-ed with bein^^ a leper. Hoards of Health have to be verN careful in the work
(it se<;re(ration.
Quest ioii : " .\rc there an\- cases of cure?"
Ausarr: -The on Iv cases I recall are those ineiitioue.l in the Hible. Xaauiau the
.svrian hero, and the ten cases whom Christ cured, nine of them too mean to ackiiowkxh-e
the duiiie medicament." "^
Qn^^tion: " What in onlinary cases is the velocity of the disease, and how lout; betore
It coin])letes its work ? '^
Answer: " Well, I have known one case last sixteen >ears. I think the usual <lnrauce
is live or six years."
Question: " Has the leprosy different modes in demonstrating itself^"
■^''■^'^■'■- " It has. The tuberculons and the anesthetic. The former is more repulsive
It swells and bloats and distorts the face. The last si.^n. of humanitv is blotte.l from the counte-
nance. 1 here are cases of this kind called ' leonine,' for the reason that the face is s<. widened
and enlaroed and made severe that the countenance looks like a lion. The anesthetic
lorn, ,s a witnenno-, a t'linnin- out, a wa.stino- awaN-, a depletion, a skeletoniziuo process "
Question : " Is u c- >iita,inons ? " ^ i • • •
/;as7.v7-.- "TlKix- are different opinions about that. I jiave .seen in married life the
uisba.ul or wife a leper for vears, and the partner in life alwavs in oood health. I have
known a leprous parent to have a healthy child. I was talkiii..- on this subject with an
.nimciit phy.sician who said to me, ' Do you .see those two chihlreu plavii,.-- tooether^ The
one IS a le,,er and the other mv own child, an.l I have no fear about contamination '"
Questuw: " How many patients are there in Molokai ;a the present time?"
Anszeu- : " .Vhout one thousand."
Here ended mv comersation with the former member of the Hoard of Health of the
Sandwich Islands, -p to d.ate the woe j^oes on. ( )„ly two weeks a.,„, a ship took twellt^■.-
ve more lepers . _ .olokai. The scene of partin,^ is .sai.l to be so heart-ieiulino. that but
pv people go to . Me wharf to witness it. The wailing and the howling at the parting- of
■>H lies, as the hlial, and fraternal, and paternal, an.I maternal bonds are broken, is something-
mat haunts the memorv. \ot long ago a vouiig man, sentenced to the leper island, declared
^v.mld not be t ,ken alive. He shot three of those wlio were attempting to seore-^ate
nnn, a.Ht then hid in a hut until a cannon on a nrighbor.'.ig hill bombarded 'the hnt^•nU, a
wieck. Then a relative went to t!ie hut and found the >oung man dead.
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THE EARTH GIRDLED.
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nut do not Ift us j,rivf u]) disroura-;L'(l. I.epujsy as well as cauccr aiul all the other
now uncouciuered ailnieuts will yet he cured. I do not know where the cradle now lioldiuK-
the coniuiu doctor is beinn rockid, whether at Molokai, or in Honolulu, or on the hanks of
the Thames, or the Rhine, or the Tiher, or the Ural, or the Hudson, or the Savannah. Nor
do I know from what collese he will unroll his diploma, nor in what laboratory he will
make his e.\i)eriments, nor in what decade he will },rive proclamation of the worldV
emancipation from diseases as yet incurable, but he xx 1 ^ro through the same persecutions
that Doctor Jeuner did because of his discovery of a way to lialt small-pox, and as Doctor
Keeley has endure.l because of his almost snpevuatural ' ure of alcoholism, and the new
I
A NAIIVi; I'lvVSr, HA A All.
discoverer will run the ,<,rauntlet of caricature, and expulsion from medical s.x-ieties, and will
hke the most illustrious IJein- of all a-es, become the tar-et for expectoration, but tin
discoverer wdl -ive leprosy the command " Thus far shall thou -o, and no farther " and tint
disease will wn-olc and crawl and slink out of the world, and after the medical emancipator
IS dead, the nations will build a monnment so hi,<rli to his memorv, that the ^ranite shall
will dispute with the skies the ri-ht of possession, and in the epitaph thereoirthe clickiii..
chisel wdl try to atone for the slanderous ton^nie, and the world that held back from tlu
discoverer the bread of honest praise will j^nve him a stone of />os/-mor/n,/ commemoratioi,
Forward the whole column of surseons and physicians for the conquest of leprosy au<;
cancer.
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CHAPTKR \I.
BATTLE AWO SHIPWRECK.
HL'XDRKDandsixtvdfad
so that not s(j iiiiich
iiifii ill tin.'
Aiiiei
:is a plank ur lope 1
aiijji \ waters
<MU
icaii warsliips lyinfr in the I
las siiic-c aj.pL'aied ; ol
hliip sunk out of si^lit
aiu
sli
conld
'Oh
iind " Vandalia" dL-iiiolishcd ; of tlic- tl
one completely uiider ; the "Adler" n.ll
laihor, tile "J.ti,
ileej^rcatlk
Ije;
our three j;ieat
;iclie(l, the "Trenton
ips; out of all the vessel
sail out into the sea ; tl
island, and by report if next
s in liarbcjr only
ed over on it
1 iiiaii nieii-of-war, the " E]
)er
sside
lee days of wreckai
one saved, and that 1r
teanier transfixed all nat
,^c and friyht and 1
and eraeked a])art aniid-
^■ause it had steam up and
a Antipodean l.nrricane did for this l,arb(,r in M
beach of this island
;ire pieces of the wreck,
ions
irch, i<S,S
skeleton of the ship remains, the "Adl
cyclonic infeniization. It
nations stands as a sviic
lorn.r which shook tlit
is a IniefpiitfinjTof what
and down the
V- While all U]
cr.
',^^- of that unparalleled tempest only on
is rather unfortunate that S
sumciently distinct to re])rescnt tl
onym of shipwreck, for the j.lac
>or is the
^inioa ill th
iruitaK^e as the world holds. In.lee.l, its h'arl
wide harbor it has only a small entn
•c is ;is fi
lat scene of
I">]MiIar mind of all
'lie a speeiiiien of foliage and
Th
le captain told us that
for he would di
so if
^•e need not think u
nice, and rocks in all d
sea caplanrs anxiety. For thouj^di
After more than
Islands crrcct vou lik
a squall came up, but he would
e Were left if we
ireclioiis toss tl
e white foa
m.
saw hini sailiii>4 out to .sea.
fi.
re covered with small boats of
seven da\s of ocean roll
c a Ijeatific vision.
return and t;ike us
'wers and fruits, ready to sell
natives brin
iij.\ without sij^ditof sliij
^s we came on deck this
L'O.
A boat bel
these and t
rails
i^nuj; speeiniens of coral and all
' or land, tlie vSanioan
moriiiii.,. the waters
oi
iknii- to the (iernian U..at
port to shore all the j
it>ii with four stoi
manner of
)assen,^rcrs who cliose to
quarters of a mile to tl;e heicli l.>,„„ .1,
it isa time of war. The Kii 'had fl 1 ^7V" ''"" " "'"- '^^^''^'^'^''^ '^ '"^■■^'''^'""^ ''"t
to be at a village house, am U w s irr ^.^tf""!- , ^' '^^ "'^'■^^ '^^'^^ '-" -- thought
W" slain if he had l,ecn there T "X ^ T , ' '"'"' ""' '''' ^'"« -""^' ^■--
Kiii..'sroo,nsand his pictures and bri7a re t"' u '" '"'"'"'• ^^'^^ '''''' «'--' ^''^
K...lish royalty, but \ f^^und i^a "^et '^Jv w^ ^^^'^^ fo"clness A.r German and
gneen and at the invitation of tl w r d ^T^'^ ^ " '""'^'''- ^^'^' '''''' ^''^'
'i.isky .soldiers, each r, .linii,... on a , illow f , , '"'" ''"; ^''-'''^^' ^^'"^- '^'^""^ fifteen
'-.v uncom .rtable , ,ow Ct w nil el '"'"^r"^ "I'''^'^ '-" two small supports. A
>vl.i li Jacob .saw the L.^elics ' "" '''^^" '^''' '" ^^^^^hel, from the foot of
'- IS!;::;::;: ::::z:'^z:zj:::zt^ , r '-i ^■■-^-■- - -^ "-vn on a
We saw one soldier who had be r'shot the f T ^'^^ '"'"' "^■"' '''' ^'-^""^-^ troubles.
assistant. Four „,en were kill« ! t Xl nTr" ,' ""1 '""^^'""^^ ''^'"'^ '^^^"''"■^ °" -»
place to-night. There are ' 'Y' 'f "'^^ '" ^ «kinnish and another skirmish is to take
..nVvancesliave been nnm 1 ;;: "^ ^T ""'' ^° ^'"' '"'^ '""^'^ ''''' ^'^^ ---
;-e the millennium. A i::n.^^:i^^T"''' ^""'-'^ '''''''''' ^"™"^ ''^-' "^^ro-
i^".hsh man-oAwar is in the harC^ll^l 'Sc^^rr ^:--^";- ^--. and
.-iiucriLan man is expected soon. What
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will 111.' the result no oni' can ])U)]-]n.sy. I'.ul tlii> is certain, this island and all the j^nouj) of
islands arc sniTcrin.i;- iVoni foreign interference. It is a common sayini;- anion^^ the native-
that first comes the missionarv', then comes the merchant, then conies the consid, tlai;
conies the man-of-war, then oh, m\ 1
Whv should three <^reat nations like the Ivn-lish, (k-rniaii and American sto(-,) to snclt
small hnsiiiess as to be watchin.i^ with anxions and e\])ensive \is4ilancc these islands, 1(.:
fear that this or that foreii,Mi .novernment should >;ct a little advantai^e ? Belter call honu
\()iir warships and leave all to the missionaries. They will do more for the civilization oi
.Samoa, than all the .t^uns that ever spoke from the sides of the world's navies. The cajHain
of on,- steamer, in an interesting address a few evenin<4S ai;o concerniiif,^ the islands of the
Pacific, declared that the only move-
ment toward civilization that amounted
to anythiuf^ in these islands had been
made by the church. C.ospel, not <;>!'!-
powder. Life, not death. Bibles, not
bullets.
The only movement that at this
time has full swinsj; in Samoa is " trade
jrin." That maddens and cmbrutes and
has j^iveu to Samoa the unsavory and
unjust title of the " Hell of the Pacific."
The forei<jn j^in is helped in its work bv
a domestic drink called " kava." It i>
prepared in the followinj^ delicious wa\ .
There is a plant called Piper Methisti-
cnni. from the root of which the kava
is made. A \oun<>- .Samoan woman
moved to one of the I'iji Islands, but
p;ot tired and resolved to return to lur
native i.slands. I'efore starting honu-
wards she saw a rat, which seemed wejik
and thin, eat the root of this plant, win n
the rat soon after became strouj;- ami
vi<>orous, and she concluded that the
best thin<; she could do for her uati\e
land was to take this root to her people,
AN ASP.KANT To THK THRuNK ... SAMOA, ^^^^^^ .^ ^^^.^^^^^ ^^^^^^. ^,^^,^_^ ^^^^^,,„. ^^,„,
vi.tjorous loo. So it was transplanted. .\s the root of it made the rat .strong- and vi-^nr-
ous, win- not the same result be produced in the human race? So she cultivated iu vSanioa
the Piper Methisticum, from which the ka\a is made, ('.iris, and old men wiio l'.a\e
nolhiii.i,^ else to do, prepare this kava by the followint,^ i)rocess : They fake the riot and
chew it until the juice fills their month, then they dischar;^c it from the -.iiouth into a bowl,
more root is ])nt into ihe nioulli and the licpiid disjiosed of in the same waw It has becoiai-
a jxipular drink. It is ordi'rid on all occasions ; at the oiieniii!^- and closin<; of all socialili- s,
before and after all styles of business, it is kava here and kava there and ka\a everywluie.
And it is cleaner than most of the drinks of other eoiiiitrie.s and has iu it no lo,<;wood, str\ li-
nine or nu.\ vomica, but pure and simple expectoration. I consider it as an iniproveuK nt
m
lie j^nonj) of
tlic iialivL-
:i)iisiil, IIki;
()(^j) to sucli
islands, fo:
r call liouH
,ili/.ation oi
Tlic captaii)
lands of tlu
only nio\t.-
it amonntfd
Is had bctii
)cl, not ^i!'!-
Biblcs, not
that at this
oa is " trade-
iiibrutes and
nsavory and
the Pacific."
I its work l)v
ava." It i>
■licions \va\.
ler Methisti-
:h the ka\a
oan woman
Islands, br.t
etin-n to lu r
rting honii-
^cc■nled we;:k
; jilant, whui
stron<;- and
led that the
)r her nati\e
her people,
: stroni>- and
; and \-i,^"r-
.ed in Samoa
n who l'.a\e
;he root and
1 into a bowl,
t has beeome
dl socialiti' s,
evcrywlu re.
wood, str;\ 'i-
iniprovcnii nt
V'
t
(III inos; sti
this kava
tile tiStilUc
■^latuiiil 111'
to llie tasto
i- imt w.'sli
iiki. cxqiiisi
1)111 llie stoi
iiii'iiniied ll;
and died.
wmild it no
Tell al
worthies of
l)l()od is wa:
from Samoa
Ciiecred tile
iiiiijlit bette
had but one
lie could <4c1
kiiijr, when
and accepte
deeds of bio
American, o
vood meml)e
or Catholic (
Do not
o\er his hon
the niissiona
There are cl
students in ji
read and wri
most time in
The beach-c(
of wrecker, j
eitv that I ki
more numero
tlieiii at SauK
These isi
liiid of all th
with kw e\c(
I'lnuch bells t
■11 niid-aftern
iii'-;lit the Ch
and from nio
town or citv
e'nielty Christ
tliey l)roke h
7
V--
THE W'ORI.D AS SKEX TO-D W ' ^^
iM.t the stoniacl, u( tl,c ,mc wl.o takes it Ixcn, .1 ^^t unl> i.s he cup uiaiuded,
-o-Kl n.c, l)ers of Pro n v^^^rinn r ^'" t''^'"* ^^enerals of our America,, wa,-s l,ave bce,i
;;■ c!.tl,olifc,uuclIe" • "' "' ^'I--l-l.an, or Methodist, or Baptist, or Co„o-,-c,atio„al.
1)0 „ot the,-ef<n-e s„eer wl,e„ I write that Malietoa is a Wesleva,,. Tl,e flac. that floats
nn Ins I,o„se ,s a cn,c .tanx-d fla,,. co„trived hy a „,issio„arv. Indeed, the .'"^d v-L^
^c„„ss,o„ar,es ,s fo„„d wherever we <., o,, tl,is island. •Tl,e P.ible , the d, 0^1'
T .re are chnrel,es and sd,ools. One of the oronp of islands has a co 1 ^ o^ -L
K s - I-pamt,on for the ,„ini.,try. Nearly all the inhabitants of the:; "L^ c ^
. c uinc n, the l,arbor keep the natives familiar with the vices of jnore civili/ednations
iU 1 ,^t'i^ 'V?' '■^^T''"'"'-'^'"'^'^""^ '"^ '^'^ sl„n,s-a,-e found here; b,it ev4v
tl.u,, alsaimla. ' '" ''"'' "''^ '''^■""l^'^'^' ^'>'-' ^'-' -'>''>^-^-'^ ^^ the Pacific fi,:d
land<^"uh:':^;tr r^ ""r"^" «:^'>'-th-keepers than you will find in a .lost any
w - few X n ti?m i • '' ""i'""'''' ""''' '^'^'^ '^^^ "'•'^^'^ °" Sabbath, the whole tow,,^
clu chbelsr ', h'"''" ? '° ^'''"''"■'- '^' '''-^^^-l^'-^^^ ^^'"^ °" Sabbath „,onii„o. the
• ch bdls r,n,,s and tl,e people put on their best attire and asscnble for worship Vnin
Kl t™.n, the church bdls rin,, and the people gather. Far on into 1^ S,,n 1 v
• J.t the Clinstian so„s:s ,„ay be l,ea,-d, canj,dit up and sounded back from ho„,e to ho.ne
t^wn:rcr":'Am°-'^'t-. '''"'= ^^^ "^°^^ ^^^^^^^'^ ^^^^ - Sa,noa ;;;:,; inZ^
tv Ph •■ r'"' "^'''' '"'"' •'''^- ^"* *'"-^ ^^''^^ »"t ^'Jwavs so. Fro,,, wha^
Iroke hi'" T" iT "''"^ '^ ' '" °'^^" ^•'"'^ -^'-^ '^->' -"q"-ed an e, nj'
tl>c> bioke his sp,„e. lo add to the humiliation of the defeated, so„,e of then, Jrl
^
;
rM.i>tfil an
M.iud in '
If llic'V (!(.■
TlRV
ciiid the C
The .^
A lailiir \V'
iVoin iindn
jMiijierisni,
1) It oiML^in^i
ll
lese 1
>u mild th(
Cl'^silN' (1
()(.
alile denial
ciniliicrs.
r.nt jj;
nankeens j
ill;; into (le
S'lUiewiiat
wliich in
(inile like ;
tile hnat cv
steamer I
knee of a
'■ \'()n are
plied, " \\
I said, " \V
tatl()()in_tr d(
'' Twenty y
''Does it
"Oh, vcs!
I asked, " Ir
to have tl
He answer
Indeed, all
had been ta*
of nianhooc
spected u
would be t
"I not adnii
tlir hush w
endure it, tl
Tl
le su
thi- there is
fashion thrc
THE WORLD AS MCICX To-DAV
99
!■ i>ti.cl and i.-atcii. WIrii a WDiiiaii
\\a>
ir '•lU'li iiiarii.i'.
camhilatf l(ir iii.ii iia'^r tu ^diiU' t'liiif, ^lu- was
iWd in tlic inarkft-plac'c Inr the public to(Kri,k. wlu iIut >Ik' uvit 111 {\,r
tliL-y (Ircidfil ill till.' iK-.-atiw, slu- wa^ ilulilnd lu (Katli.
Tlic'V \V()r>iii ])(.■<! iIk- d,,-, ,,r iIr. cvl. or lln' Uirll^, ..r llu- li/.ml, ..r ihr slink,
■.id the Christian ivli,iL;i(in U> such iii(iii-.ti(witics ni' '
Hark
H lia\i<ir. and ail tliiip^^s cliaiiuHd.
\M> ( K'i:,\\ ( ||I<( iM X'l'ICS.
hf
I ■'aw 111) fasliinii.|ilatcs in the windows.
Lac!; ol complete plusical iiiveslitnie coiius not
T \'i"r( i( iim;
The vSanioans June nut much use for clo
.\ tailor would starve to death in Samoa
iVoiii undue ei'ononu-, not iVom
pniperisni, not from immoialitx-,
1) It ori.L,nnally fron; the fact that,
u'l these islands, the climate is
so mild the year round that ne-
cessity does not make iiiexor-
ahle demand njioii weavers and
clothiers.
I>ut ,t;ra(hially calicoes and
ii.iiikeens and aljiacas are coni-
iii-- into demand. The Samoau
S'liiRwhat sid)stitntes tattooiii.t,--,
which ill some cases apjjears
(luile like a suit of clothes. In
the boat crossiii;.,'- from wdiarf to
steamer I put my liand on the
knee of a Samoan, and said,
'"Von are tattooed." He rc-
l^lied, " Ves ; tliat me clothes."
I said, " When do \ou have tliat
tattooiujr done ?" He answered,
'' Twenty years of a,<,'e." I said,
"Does it hurt?" ' He replied,
"Oh, yes! Hurt! Swell up!"
Lisked, " How loii.t,'- docs it take
to have that tattooin.i,'- done?"
He answered, "Two month.s."
Indeed, all the men I noticed
IkuI been tattooed. It is a bad.t,R-
of manhood. A man is not re-
spected unless tattooed. He
would be thrust out of societv
nr not admitted. The most i^rofitable business is that of taltooim:-. Th
KIM. AMI uriaCN (II- SAM().\.
Ill such atlire' llu.' Oiici.'ii siiiili.(l mi us.
thi
e artist retires to
m
on.
"Ue unist l>e in the fashion; \et I suppose in
there is no more pain than that which men and women suffer in the martvrdom of
tile bush with a kw candidates for two or three months. livery da\-, as the patient ca
endure it, the prickin<,r in of tlie paint by needles and sliari)-tooth combs, the process ooes or
Tlie sufferin<^ is more or less frcat, but
fashion tiirou-li which some people go in the higher civilized life. What tight Ixiots with
JO
Tin- HAR'm (;iRi)M-.i).
a^oiiy of corns! What ineiciu.i^ of llic' car lohcs for (liaiiioud riii-s! What crucifixion ot
stmil' waists to make thcni of u.orc moderate six-! Tiic tattooing is oulv another form
of worship at tlie altar of la>hion — no fliuciiia,; ou tiic part of tlie tattooed, no l)ackni- out.
Tile Wiirk done, lie who went into
the hush a bos' comes out a man.
As we passed aloiij^r the main
street of the island, we had a crowd
after us with somethiiij; to sell. To
hn\- a flower or a shell was j^rcath
to reinforce the luimher of the e^-
cortiii^ party. The men arc muscu-
lar and well formed. The children
are beautiful. .\s to the women,
every nation has its type of feiiial •
beautv, and no one of another nation
is competent to juih^e couccrniu.t; it.
Hut there j^oes the whistle of tlir
".\lameda." It has to .sound three
times, and then oiT for Xew Zealar.d.
We wait for the second wdiistle and
then start. Over the rolliu}.; billows
to the ladder of the steamer, and up
to our old ]ilace on the .!;(>od shij), to
which we ai^ain tnrst our live^.
What a mystery it must be to all the
innumerable creatures of the deep.
We di.scuss some fl> ini^; fish, or .see
once in a voya.<;e a spoutiu,y^ whale,
but we never realize that we are be-
in.^- discussed l)y the inhabitants df
an element fdlcd with so much lite
that our captain says when a whale
is w(Minded by its captors, it recpiires
two men to keep off the sharks
while the captive is bein.-^- dniwn in.
What, suppose you, the inhabitants
of Oceana think of this shi]) floatin-
above them, of the bow ])lowin-j;
thronj^h, of the screw .stirriui; t'.;e
wave, of the passenj^ers bendinfi; o\ i r
the railiii'j;? I*. very moment, as \w
pass on bv dav and ni-lit, there arc thousands of ichthyolooical iiupiiries of " What'^
tliat^" What do the sca;^nills flvin<^ luindreds of miles from .shore think of us? What .:o
the sharks think ? What" do the wliales think ? What does the octopus think ? We ,iic
as jrrcat mvsteries to them as they are to us. And now we come back to study that wliuli
, across the Atlantic, and is now .is
ui:kmi;si
.M()TIlia< .XMI SON, SHOWING S.\M1T.U Ul
.■\MONC. INCIVII I/.ICI) RACI-S.
TAT I Ol 11 NO
has been to me one of the ^rcat
ly
fascinatiui; in my
first voyage over the Pacific, and will, I suppose, be to me as great a
THK WORJ.D AS SKlvX To-DAV
lOI
VV..11.ICT until ilR. last jmsh of the slfauKT altiT I
ilu' arclntvctmv and adoriiiiitiit of an ocvan
liavf lutnid .\(\v Vol k harbor. I nivan
, ,,rv,. ,.,„i, ,. ^^'''^'*-'' ^^ ''''^ iiiatii(.iiiatir> o.iild contrive its
iin\i', oi what (.■oinpaNS (.xi'cntL' I '•' Its ..i-.,-,.r,,i,, •. "i"\<. u»
"'>pi<l lip, and inin.Jk'd and tnldid and j.nt
al US tlnvads woven ],v tl.v linger of (lod, an. ,... „,,, ,„„ „„,„,,„ „
';:!: ::? ±':r ::' ^r^'- '''■-'. ^"^' ^"l- •"■ ^^- --.., as it n.akvs ..p its nnnd ,
I ^.. ...e. .... ot^.r, and-:.:;';;:. ;,:t::;ne ;;;;:: ;;:,H::::::':rr;::;-:;;:::n;;:': '-n
SA^tOW C.IRF.S MAKINC, K AVA.
tlu' rise, the rnsh the arch, the fall, the voice, the splendor, the convolution the niincle
W.V,., ,l,e ,,ic„„ed wave, iho „.„vc j„s. ,,„„,, „r ,1,. »avc. j„;",lvi,!... " ' '"'"'"'
>ave IS ever chan<n
nir
fl(
^itcorates it with a flash, or tli
)rescent, rnhescent, irid
escent.
X
e ni<4lit sinks nito it a silver and
Tlie complexion of
o\v phosphorescence
lorage of star, or tl
le morning
TlIIv WORLD AS Sl'.MX TO-DW
•^3
If' ^,Jwr■'L
?1?:
puts upon its brow a ct>rniui. lllamlKd iiilo wliiU' (Ji- Uluslud into (.aMiiiin.'. X^w M,uk
as a raven's \\'m<i ; now rosvali' as llir llaniiiii^n's jilnniai^r. Imoih lU'-'-it to iilliauiai iiu',
.uu\ tliLMK-i.' to nialacliili', lluii iiicarna<linr(l a^ if woiuuKil, into wrniiliun m ina.im.iita. I
iilc'hratu iKil llic OLvaii. It is ino Mm. I cililnMir uiilv mu' oi'^aii waw. I'.iit ihui' aiv
liiiK's wlkMi it is linslud to s]vv\\ mi tlir ,L;i(.it 1mim,iii <,!" im mollur wliiili iu\u- t\a-M.> to
IiL'aw; for tIi(Hi},rli tlic hillnw iiia\- slniiilu r, the onaii kti'iis its fvcrlastiiij,^ >\\\]]. TIil-
iliild may sleip wliilc tin- niollur rests n.it. I'.nt lie wlio lias nnlv studied the \va\e asleep,
or the \va\e aioll, does not fully know it. The \va\e Ikh iikmmIs. It xniu tinus ]>asses from
t!ie ealm to the irate, from the beautiful to the awful, from the i>Ieasaiit to the terrific,
troiii the slumherous to the paro\ysinal, fioiii lesthetics to deiiioiiiaes, aii<l thoii,!.;h now it
may ]>la\- with the
zephyr, it ma\ after-
ward wrestle with
Caril)l)ean whirl-
wind or Mediterra-
nean ciiroclydon.
.Xothinj;- can stand
lietoie it when coiii-
niaiided to <lestr(j\ .
It rallies from the
al)\sins a semi-oin-
nipotence. I'rom
.'ill sides nnder the
streii<i:tli of the
winds it rolls toward
t h e shore or hoiii-
iiards the ship. It
was one wave that
consummated al-
most every .ship-
wreck. The preliminary waves, the preparalor\- forces, the inlroduetorv furies may have
done their work, but tin li .al stroke was left for one climaeteric force, and that ^ratlKicd
and rolled up and surged forward, black with wrath, and charged npon the ])alaces of the
deep, snl)mer<,Mii<4- them, or moved into the unsheltered harbor with the twisted bolts, and
thcsplit beams of ocean comjuerors. The capsi/ed ".\dler" of the (Hriiian iiavv hiiiiron its
side, rusted and riven and jiarted amidships, .shows what a wave, once blue-eyed, and rocked
in the lap of a bri<;Ut day, and lullaliied of .soft winds, may ^row up to be when, with
demoniac yell and cnisliinfi^ ven,iicancc, and all-coiupierincr niioht, it swears the doom of
cverythin.!.,' between the coral reefs and the l)cach of the harbor of vSamoa.
The ocean .sentenced to death in the I'.ook which says "There .shall be no more sea,"
seems determined to demonstrate, before it is slain, what one wave can do, in li.i,ditin,i; up
the world with the beautiful, or b!ackeiiin<j it under the swoop of a tornado.
SAMciAN ki;siiii;nc]; i\ Tin-; cocntry as i saw it.
CIIAPTI'.R \II.
UNDER THE SOUTHERN CROSS.
nlll'",l<lv arc soiiU' tilings in ihc luiiid yiar al'lir \».ar niiiainiu^ uiKkfiiud. Tin
tiiiiu for fxplaiialioii ilois not sctin to cdiik'. W'l' Iiad for vcars .^tcii allusinn
lo llic .Soiulicni Cni>s. \\\' kn<.\v mil \vli,.l it nuaiil. Wr supposed it to be an
api)earance in the heavens at certain hititnde and l<in,i4iHiile, \et we knew not
exactly wliat that appearance was, I5nt seated a few ni;;lits a;;o on tlie <!eck of this shi]>
in our voyaj^c around tlie world a <,aMitlenian luut over nie and said, "The Southern Cross
is visible. I,et us ;;() and see it." (loin;^ to the o])i)osile side of the shij) I looked np and
belield it in all it.s sn^|;estiveness lookinj^ down upon ns and looking down upon the sea.
The Southern Cross! It is made up of
ft)nr bri^dit stars. ( )ne star slaudinj,' at the
top of the perpiudicular piece of the cross,
and another star staudinj,^ for the foot of
it. ( )ne star staudinj,^ for the rii^hl hand
end of the horizontal ])iece of the cross,
and another star for the left liaud end of
it. So clear, so resplendent, so chari^fd
with .sijfuificance, so sid)liniel>' niarkin^r
ofT the heavens that neither mail nor
woman nor child nor ani^el nor devil can
doubt it. 'IMie vSouthern Cross ! To make
it God put those four worlds in their j)laces.
The tender and treinendous emblem of our
reli.t;ioii nailed a,q;ainst the heavens with
sih'er nails ol star. I'our are enough. ( lod
wastes no worlds. He will not cncoura.i^e
.stupidity. If xou cannot sec the Southern
Cross in the four stars, forty stars will not
make yon .see it. I p yonder they stand,
the four stellar evani^clist.s upholdiiii^ the
cross. What a Crosjiel of the firmament!
Tile cross that Constantine .saw in tlie sky
with the words " IJy this coiuiner," was an
evanescent cross and for one ni<,dit, l)nt
this .Southern Cro.ss is for all nifj;lits, and
to last wdiile creation lasts. So every ni,t;ht of this voyage anioni.,^ the i.slands of tlu-
Pacific I am reminded by this celestial crucifi.v of the only influence that has turned the
islands from their cruelty, and .shamelessness, and horror, the influence of the Cross.
iCxccptiny; the throne of the Deitv I think there will be no hitjher thrones in heaven
than those occupied by the missionaries. C)thers have lived and died for their own
(KMl
MAORI Clin;i', NEW ZKAr.AND.
Uroiiglil by till.- auUior.
TIIK WOKI.D AS SHKN To-DAY.
^05
country. Tliisc livcl ati.I .liul lor tlic iKitivo ..f oiIrt couulri.... Main „f tlu- tnissi,,,,.
.,rus were iIr. KiadnaUs of Valr, or iTiiuvto,,, ur Ww linuiswick, or ( )M.,nI. or CanilMi.]...-
or I',.lMibur^,li, a.wl uuv .,iialilinl lo, pulpis, l,.r clitorial chairs, inr MK.lical K-ln.vc!
nunt lor .^ real won Is au.l .Ur.ls i„ o.iul roon.s, lor om.iiincial >.ucv>.c.s that \vo„l.l liavc
i.n-n.^ht all hono-s aii.l all I,.xmi..> t.. tluir llrl. .Manv ol the womu.i oI this ruru.-n
Muss.on caM>e uvre l.ro.i^hl „,, i., rclincl associations, o.nl.l plav well on nnisieal instm-
nunts, were the eharni of best .society, ha<I attractiveness that litte-l them for auv circle of
ease ..r opnlence. Snch ,ncn an.l wonun took whale-ships lor forei,,n lands, live.l on lare
l.a only coarsest digestive organs eoul.l u.a.M,e, were tossed lor months on ron-d, seas,
I.nule.l am,d naked .savages, abode in «rass huts, .pent their life an.id the s.,uah,r and thJ
>leuch, and the vern.ui and the epideunes and the low vices ..f tl,..,e wh„n, thev h ,.1 come
to rescue ()| a roll ol a hundred and eighty names of sueli nun and women not re than
our ..r hve ol them were ever luar.l of outside of their own kindre.l ..r the circles „f
iMrbar.aus an.ono whom tiiey lived. The More of the Christian heroes ,n>d heroines who
came to these islands of the
i'acific in the bri.t; "'J'had- . '""
<leus," the "Iceland." the
" Heujamin Hush." the " .\v-
ericli," and the " Mary
Krazier" nmler Captain
Charles Sumner, can ue\er
he fully told. .\1I the tal-
ents, all the scholarshi]), all
the nerve and nniscle and
brain, all the spiritiud ener-
KMcs of these ChristK- men
and women i)ut forth on be-
half of people whom thev
had never seen, and whose
names they had never heard
])n)uounced until the da\- of
arrival on these islands.
Some of these messen,t;ers of
li-ht were cut to pieces and devoured l)v cannibals. Some of them toiled to save tlie
besotted .sava-cs while iirofli-ates of Christian countries lauded from merchantman or war-
vessel or whalinq- sliiji were tr\in.<; to destrov them.
The dau.nhter of one of the missionary families describes her nu)ther as toiliu<. until
the skiu was blistered off her arms and .says that while her lather was about to preach,
a -roup of drmikeu .sailors broke the windows and brandished a knife ab,n:t lii.s face'
sayni- " Here he is ; I have -ot liim ! Come on ! " These missionaries sent their little
I'lnldren to .\nierica and Kuro]ie because they coidd not be proi)er]v brou-ht up amid
iKathenism, and what lieart-reudiu- ])artiu-s took place as fathers au.l mothers surrendered
their children for the vova.ii^c across the seas, in many cases those parents never seeiujr their
children again. Xo re-nlar postal arran<remeuts, letters were sometimes not received" until
ci-htecti months or two years old. The ship-captaiu, Charles Sumner, for the first part of
the voya-e to the Pacific with liis -roup of missionaries scoffcl at Christiauitv, but he was
converted under the influence of their example, and became their champion. He said about
A MAdlU nwia.t.iNT..
: .•
io6
THK KARTH GIRDLKD.
OIK' oftlusL- Pacific islands, " I have l)i.t.n liciv bcluiv ami I sec the dilTcrcncc. Koniicrly as
.soon as :n>- anchor was down my ship was suntmndcd by dissolnlc men and women
swinnnin.i^- unl iVom shore ami lr\ in-; to come alxiard. How different now I Clivislianity
has made the chanj^e." And when st)me one tradnced the missionaries he said, " (.)h, you
need not tell me these stories. I iiave lived four months with these dreadful people and
know them well. I know the natives, too, as they were uiany years ayo and I am fully
convinced that the chani^e I see is from the influence of the rellLjion of the Bible."
One boy was the means of the civilization and e\au,t;eli/.atiou of the Sandwich Islands.
His father and mother were killed and he ran away with his baby l)rothcr on his back.
Tlie infant was slain by a spear. The heroic boy ^ot on a ship for \ew luitiland. He was
foniul weepiujf on the steps of Vale Colle<^e, Connecticut. He told the .story of his native
island. That story aroused the Christian world. ".V little child .shall lead them." The
Tahitian Islands have felt the .same supernal ])o\ver. They had been in the habit of slayin<r
at;ed parents, and when there were too nuuiy childreu in a family they were put out of the
wav. Cannibalism was a part of the diet. There was no law of morality for unniarriei'
women. One of their reli,<,nous sacrifices was a mar and a pi<,' roasted toi^ether. In the
Fiji Islands parents were buried ali\c, and wives were captured as buffalo are lassoed.
Incantation was common and snake worshi]) jirevailcd. Amonjj the Marquesans polyandr>-,
or the custom of haviuii uiany husbands, was considered rijiht. An iron ueedle was worn
in the no.stril. The lower lip by force of torture was driven out to utmost distortion.
Tiiere was a canonization of filth and obscenity and massacre. The Friendly Islands and
the Society Islands were at the lowest depths in morals and cruelty. All these islands
have been illumined, and the nu st of the abominations have sped away, not because of the
threat of forei<^u ,t^uus or as a result of national or international politics, but by the influ-
ence of that which yonder mi.i;hty crucifix in the ni_q;ht .sky typifies. Let no ship captain
ever see it from a deck on the Pacific, or passenger wdicthcr for pleasure or profit sailini^
amid these islands behold it, without rememberinj; what the Soutiiern Cro.ss has done for
the besotted savaj^es, bounded on all sides by these vast wildernesses of water.
Oh, that Southern Cross ! Were ever four worlds better placed than those which com-
pose it ? Thoui,di they were uninhabited, and l)uilt only for tliis si<^nificance, they were
worthilv built. Shine on until all the people of this h.emisphere wdio see thee shall
betliink themselves of the sacrifice thou dost depict ! A cross not made out of darkness,
but out of li<,dit. .\ cross stron.yf enonj^h for all nations who see it to hauf^ their hojies
upon. One night while I w^atched this celestial crucifix, the clouds gathered, and the top
of the cross was gone, and the fi)ot of it was gone, and the outspread arms were gone. No
more of it to be seen than if it had never been hoisted. Had the clouds conquered the
stars? Xo. After a while the chmds parted and rolled back and oflf, and there it stoo<l
with the same old em1)lazonment — the Southern Cross. vSo the hostilities of earth and hell
mav roll up and seem to destroy the ho])e of communities and of nations, but in God's good
time the antagonisms will fidl back, and all obscurations will be dispelled, and all the earth
shall see it, t)\e Southern cross for the South, the Xorthcru cross for the North, the Ea.stei ii
cross for the Ivist, the Western cross for the West, but all four of the crosses found at la>t
in the new astronomy of the gospel to l)e one aiul the .same cros.s, that which was .set up
igoo vears ago, and of which I have fi)uud cither a prophecy or a remini.scence in that
•r, seen night bv night wliile pacing the deck of a .ste.amer on the Pacific,
ipli
^plt
CIIAPTKR vni.
ANTIPODEAN EXPERIENCES AND BALAKLAVA ON A DINING-TABLE
GIIKAn;,ds of Xi^ht were descending Iron, the evening skies, and aseendinc
O.U ti.e waves ol I he Pacific, and ridin, down in hlaek e-.ariot of shadow f, ^
e nou„ta,„s of New Zeahuul as we a,,,roaehe<i the harhor of Anekland, an
lie h<,d,thonse 0,1 the rocks held np Us oreat torch to keep ns off the reef and
toslK,wust]>ewaytosafewharfa,,e,seen,in. to say, » Yonder is a path of waves 'Rie
into peace ! Accept the weleon.e of tliis island continent '" "
It was half-past seven o .k when the ^reat screw of onr steamer ceased to swirl the
waters and the ^an^-p ank was lowered and we descended to the ilrn, land, o„r nan 1 d
as we heard it spoken by a nmltitnde who were there to .Tcet ns St,-,,, ■ •
it, 10,000 iniles .oni home, to hear our name prom^L^r;: L, ^ ^ S^f^ ^^^
never -en before and whose faces conld ]>e onlv dindy seen now l,v the lanterns on he
.locks and tlie h^hts of onr ship, just lialted after a Ion,, ^■o^•a,e. What ma.le 1 e n ht to
me more memorable, was that I was suddenly informed' that at ei-du do k w to
lecture in t eir hall, and thirty minutes was short time to allow a poor^sa lor ke nn^d o
j;et physical and mental equipoise, after twenty-one .lays' pitchin,- Put ac ei^l t c . k I
was .eady and confronted a thron.^ of people, cordial and ,,enia? as any on ^v r luU
from platform or pulpit. ^ saiuiea
I told how for many days I had been lookin,. off upon a oreat ocean of ipecac, but tint
had not wanted, as many say un.ler such circumstances, to be thrown over) oanl, an
Ihd not think any one ever did want to be thrown overboard, and reminded th „, < f he
sea-s,ck voyager who said he wished to be thrown into the sea, and the captain h u a
sudor dash on him a pad full of cold ocean water, an<l when the soaked and sh ve in au
protested and asked what the captain meant by such an insult, the capta el" vi
u-anted to be thrown overboard, and I thought I would let you trv I J von lik a buck
ofthe water before yon took the whole ocean." ' ' "-^^' ^i ""^i-et
Never so glad were we to stand on firm land as the night of our arrival at Auckland
Voidrous New Zealand! Few people realize how it was discovered. Thev te 1 of
taptau, Cook and of Dutch navigators, but all the islands of the South Sea as well 'ids
nnniense Ne.^ Zealand, were discovered as a result of the e^-rt to watch t^^l ns^ y,
n e tI.e sun's disk rom the South Seas. The Roval Societv of (;reat Pritain sent outs s
1 01 Ins voyage were only the agents of science. How the interests of this wo 1,1 are
nked w. h the behavior of other worlds, and how the fact mentioned suggests that mo t f
e valuab e hmgs known in this world have been found o„t while lookuig for son e ling
-•, and what subhnnty all thi. gives to the work of the explorer ; the tran.:^t of N'en Hi
™;'''f':V^"''^'"^'V'" transit of man V islands A-oln the' unknown intone wd
kno
wii. Put the
prowess of such iiieii can
wli
laviLiatiin
o puts out in this day of charts and 1 ^
oils for another heiiiispheie, daring typhoons and evcl
(107)
never be fully a!)i)reeiate<l. '1'
apparatus with a ship of i
loiies, strange currents and hidden
le sea captain
0,()f)0
§
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r'
'^k:
TlUi Woklj) AS SJvJ'X T()-I
toi-ks, iiiu.sl Ik' a I
>ia\i- 111,111
Caiit,
nil Co
I'lll \\il(j (Mil IIICI^MH. tl
^^•llllll- out 1111, , iiiil^
II- cnlli.i.^
IKVII lllaiiprd, 111 sllips nf ..,„, lulls, ,1
<Mi siioiT l)v ,sa\-a.i^rs R-aiK |,
iiiiwii sf.i^, aiTi
).\V
'' Cal.ct, ,,r Maic, |'
log
MO, or
I-'I'OMMIIL; Inck-, i,lll\ 1
wiliUnu.sM-, ni UMU 1 ihat I
iMiimhalisni aiul
iH'raiiic 1
' >ial|i c.r r,,;i,; d
'■> iiiiiMiiio ,,|„,„ |||^,||,^ ,^11^1
till.
i.i\c in \ir
lint
Sii
I'll 11
nil Ml Ww /,^.
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IIIM- (ll.illill
^lis ol 1(1
" iiK', ami to iiio-,!
"■""I 'I-- a -cm ill!,, ih
^■^' ■'i"l v.il"! l.cNoiid thai ,,r
il! I
van so iiiiic'ii about t
I'^'"l'ir who conic here, Xesv ZealaiKl
<■■ cn,\\ii of the \\(,iM'
tliat \vc arc startled
H' SlipClstltl,,,,^ ;,,„| ,,,||,.
~|ilelldi(l
iipcM ami
aii\- oihci-
;coL;ra|)!i\ .
A
"" .irnviiiM licv ,,, |i,|,|
nunca in proportion to ihe miinlK r ,,r tl
i.l;i-oiis criielti(
"line chlirelle-
sniprisc. \\\. ]|,|^.,
'•'""in- here , llnd ci-ht clinrcl
>i- i>'ipiilali..n. 1
"I '"is l.iiid ill ,,ihe|- 1
i" ^'i w Zealand ll
lines
laii 111
ICs t,
fliiiiclics 111 iiiaiu- 1)1
'■■' piisscss , iiimlcri
he the c,
places ill X, w '/.
".^ cacdi oilier and half
a popiilalioii of
JostI
" ""'■ Mlia;;c that 1 visited
~.llicc
laland and thc\
-I- wlicii tlici
<.\ir\- one ol' iluiii.
-taiAiiiij- nr
1""1''''- 'l"li( re aiv l,,o main
ami (oiitciiil loi li'dit
I' arc 1 1
'" niaiiv chnixdics and
tach other,
"i\' ol their niinisl
iTs, ,is Is Mire t(
'■""^''|"'"ll\ not cii.,ii-li siipp,,rt I
Ol
Allot:
H'r surprise t
tcl
prise to nic is that !( in,de siil
'" th( ir cxpciicii
f^- at the hal'ot I
"■•'-^- '-^ 11' liill Mast. I C,,,,,! ,.]
\\'>\\ ino\iiiM |i,i- til,
lliat the (xpcriineiit has 1
Hi.\, and I Iicrcl
'\ lepoil to the A
n.^I'loi lein ale siUiiM-c tli,,i X.-^. /.,,d,,nd is d
|'^;ant hidics
"iiiicaii I, Miles
'I'lii lll.idc here slicccssriilh
lar ,ilie,id ol" t
ill III, ;ilid
vvniiian, woiii,,,, is here clcv.ain- the l.allot I
'"^''■•"1 "I till- lullol l„,x de-nid
auvwhcrc else, should m-in 1
liad aiadc such
Iiecii elected to oil
lia-e. /,ool< at 1 1
the l),dlot box lias d
1 hi- so ;irr;iid to Kl
>"■<, and \vli\- in X( w Zcd.uid,
IIU
ir .\ii
I .^raiid 11
-^i- III il. I,
woiiien lia\(- a \-,ii(
111 H'.i, or
K'c, and
"k at the illitcr.-it
as thoimli
liian liiiiis(-If
si'i- how p,„,rl\- the in.iscnl
K' ,U<)Vcniinelits of liine-tcnths of the A
IS and the iiu-oinp( lenis w-ho ]
l,l\'C
iiiis li;i\c c\ei-(
iMil the ri-ht of snf-
om- III the no
vvninan ,-i chance. I .un not cl
(^liaii-(-, hilt tlicv ciniiot
possession (]| in.in. .^p
imric;iii citus ,-iiid
tar that
ill al llu- ballot box is ;i tail
^(•i- wh.it Work
;ii\-(-riiiii(-iUal .-ifhiis will b
iir(-;
tr\- It. It
K- ,-111 \- Will-'
IS oltcii said ill Am
X't-w /
iiad
>i- made ;iii\- bi Iter b\ iIu
lal.uid h.is tri(-d it, l( t I'li-kind ,-ind .\
■M-rcisc It. I'or tl
Z(-,d,
K' rcliitatioii of that
(■■iK-a that ll woiiK-i, liad the ri-lil 1
mil, ol i()(),i)o,, women wl
Who rc-istcrcd o!il\- i2(;,ik)<, h;
lo rc-isti-n-d
I'H'oi-y I pill till, laei that in t
"leri(-,-l
> \-ote ihe\- u-onid not
Ik- last ekct
to \oti- t:
1,111
"K-ii. I'crhaps woman will
ivc voted, 'J'his r.it
0",(,(„, h,-ivc voted, while of th
e I
lo s.lows that
loll in .Xew
'J.v""" "leii
iisj'onsiblc lor the mill of tl
\c-L ,sa
iHit I think tl
le r.-icc, since she first ,-iti.- ti
vc politics. I know tht- cl
women ;ire more iiiixioi
lai-i- ih.'it sIk.
.\i
K-Tc IS a ch;iptcr in Uku nirittcr of PM
K- lorbiddcii fruit
1" J 'anil
am, wlK-ii he, saw Kvc calin- that appl
sio", ate the most of it, and that I
ppir, a
I'lnc Iriiit not wntteii. I think tlrit
sKi.-(| lo
r ;i bit
V, ;i
"'1, .tic-ttiiu
"ifii catiii"- ever
since.
II
K' niimcdiat(-lv shook the tree f,
It into his po
iliicei
lias started l\
woman did first tr;
or more ai)ples ;md 1
into the world the only nciii" who I
msn-rrss I c.-uiiiot for-ct that
)!• siiffra-c and si
^I'l-'P on nntil slic -cts it. 81
ic is ,1 (let
las c\-er done much towrird
las
slie iiitro-
ci
iniiied and jKTscvcri
sa\iim It
W
onian
Hell
ts for tlic I'liited Stat
K' niav vet decide the elccti
ns^- crc-itnn-, .-md sli
I.- wil
wa
s siirj)risc(l al.so in tl
<1 Iicard tliat tlicv liad
<-'s, as alreaiK-
lese re- ions to find I
oils III I-ai-laiid, and elect ]-
rcsi-
K'ls l.usv 11, the political afi^airsof Xcw Zealand.
low warinh
this IS not .so. T
)ccome soincwlhit imp;itieiit of tl
»\al tliev- ;ire ti
!•
iiirlaiK
1. I
"1(1 all
n-v iH-a.-'i(.,.|iiv 1,.,^.^. ihui.s tl
governors .sent
Mom the old
.i;s tlicir own way, clectiii'' their
R-ir .i^ovcriinieiital motlier, lint
Hople are rciniivl to pax- no tax to the liritisl
lie Untisli flajr.
country arc such i
)W11 P
irl lament,
"en ,is arc a.^rccahU.-, and the
1 crown, and tlie\- arc in -ood 1
minor with
1 lO
Tlir: ICARTII CJRDLKD.
THH WORLD AS SivHX TO-DAV.
lai;, (111 my
l)i',i;iiiiiiii<^
llu' riiiti.-(l
I^ and the
iiiiiislfisof
L livitaiii ;
^tou a 11 (1
sldii a 11 (1
)iK' inv till'
(if .s^rcal
i.^lifa rc'S.
/(.al a 11 <i
till' fiiian-
(k'])i(.'ssi(iii
nucli, as
olc world
iiiR' sc'(.iiis
l; an (.•])!-
Iiidfc-d,
Id is now
ix'ssi-d and
kid aflaii.
the liold
sli i p a r-
;■ i 11 X f w
I WlTC lifl-
-■s, plows,
ions a<4'ii-
I iiiiplc-
)f Anicri-
nufacluiv.
all New
I is RJoic-
lal tin
can Con-
has ])ii '.
1 the frcr
thevaliK
sheep on
e liillsidi-
leu ted.
oii,<i^ onr
in Aiick-
nie is a:;
he serve':
f imitiiiN.
Ill
While chaplain he n.de with Sir Colin Caniphell :,nd hi. h.toneal InM loi- tlie en,„„v
ol Luckiiow— that eit\ whose name will sf •• " ''n'mu
«'..■ Sepoy ati-oeities. and wonianlv loiftnde and Cln.tiaii iuioie. He told ns most
ideiclothe. to
•■""I in llK' liteiMtnie ,>|- all a-es as the sviionvni
L^raplncallv how tiie women waiting ,., ,K,,t,, ,, l.ueknow'tove'm; ^;hen'\,i"''' "
-akc l>anda,es h.,- the wounds of the soldiers, and that when at'klu women were
- u.d thev appeared m the brilliant dress ..f the l.all-room-ihe.e dre.^s ,o i, ™
t ^' -nvP-a having been snddenlv eonie npo„, a„d when the wive> and da" le s of
iinssionaries and Christian meivhanl.. ha.l nothing else to wear i.m.Jilus ol
';";;"'-'-I' Cowie aNo had on his walls pictures „r .,n,e of the most stirri,,.- seems
nl^I>^u^.var with winch the military iriends of the l>i.h.,p had keen o^n^mt'
IN- THK si-m-Riis Ol- ArcK-r.ANn.
Here is a pictnre<l scene where there was no retreat for the Fn.dish .,,,,1 ^ < fi ■ . r
nn» seemed certain destruction, and their ,eneral cried ^•"■^''^''-'"'' ^'^ ^'>-- ■^^--'-^
liKUi this j)lace; von will die here'
that !" And \
out : " Mlu ! there is no retreat
and the men replied: "Ave, ave ; we are rea.lv to d,,
112
rUK IvARTH GIRDLKD.
infai
ii\ .
will li
I.TI', iVoui till' I'.isli()|
(liRstidii lluil I havr askfd iiiaiiv li
I said, " \'nnv Lonlslii]) kiuw tlif ch\
IS dWIl wo
Ills, I i^ot a satisfattorv- answer t
mis, liiit Inr wliicli I iKwr ivtvivid a satisfact
o a
iirv aiiswtr.
iKii (if I!alakla\a, and will you pk'asc fxplaii
uw what I have never heen ahle lo find out, and lo which Ttnnvson makes lel
1 l(
' Ch;
tile Ij.'ht iiri-adt
anc
I>
1 in that line where he s;
ereiR'e m his
ivs, ' Some one Iiad 1
lo yon know, and will vou tell me, exactly wiial that i)lMnd
)llinilere(l
vr was
wil
Til
en the
liislK
>|i illustrated with kiiixis and for
table till' position of the ICn^iish ijiiiis, the Rnssiai
ks and na
pkii
He said, " I can, and
1 rinys on the dininL'
Ills, and the tro(i])S. lie demoustraled
to me plainlv what the military hlniider was that caused the dash and havoc of that
rciiiment whose click of
siinn
an
d clatter of lioof^
ca\alrv
uid
jiui^ie of hits, and spurts of hlodd
yon h.ear in the I'oet Laureate's battle hymn. Here was the line of the bjiolisl
verv well defended, and \oiider was the I
1 "uns, not
armv
Til
e order was Miveii to the
iiie of kii.ssiau .uiiiis, liacked bv the whole I
Missiaii
and kee]i them from beiii.tr t;iken bv llie Knssi
cavalr\- iv^inient to take care of those Iviiolish "uns
th.
ins. and
!•;
disl
tl
1 "uiis :
r.'it i!
le coinniand was,
ake care ol
order was to cai)lure the Russian arlil
le words were niisuiidi.'rstood, and it was suiiposed that th.
erv
V
:n.i;Iish o-uns!" it was ihoui^^hl tlie command
Instead of the command. " Tal>
!-■ care of iIk
gliasti
was
ml hi
i1 ',
Take those I
Russian •'Uiis
assault ol
tlK
I'or
hat
111
th
at I'.alakl
ipossible, the riders i)liin,<;cd tlicir spurs and headed
eir horses into certain death. At last I had positive information as b. what the 1
ava wa-
At Ivlinbun'li, vScotland,
JlllIKU !
>ears a^o, I asked one of th
e soldiers wlio rodi
in that char-e the >aiiie cpiestion, but even he, a participant in the scenes of that licrv da
could not tell m
just what the blunder w:
Xow I have it at last
ina,uiielic talker, but on llie d
bcfo
the ev,", drainati/ed and demoustrati
not oiilv- told in the stirrint^- words of a natural orat
inin.i; table of tlie f.ord I'.isliop of Auckland I had it .set
or aiKl
out
)V tl
in.stead of the steel ba\i)nets, the silvi
le cutlery on the white t,al)leclotli ; but
s!iirp swords of death, knives for bread-cutti
r forks of a beautiful repast ; and instead of tl
ii'j'
destruction, the nai)k
fresl
and instead of the lielchi
11"; "uiis of
in riiii.
1 as loni; as 1 remember this visit to Xew Zealand
a hospitalitv the memory of wliicli shall be bri<dit and
CFIAI'TI'R IX.
LECTURE AT AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND. -THE BRIGHT SIDE OF THINGS."
G'-'-r- '- •^■"^■;- tn lnn„l>, as wdl :,. I,v ,„v>s an,„„nHn,K.Mt., 1„„ I was
Mu„r,s..l „,„„, la,„ln,, u. inul U,. cnnv.I i„ waUin,. s,. lar,., .sp. -,allv a. I .
sup was .K.arlv iwdv. lu.nrs l,.!,,-,,,! tla- li,,,. of Ikt c-x'^c-t. I n.,,,,',, a 1
<l.uk.K.s I,a,l l.c.,„n to sail, up,.,, th. l.aH.o,-. A vast sea of ,a<vs and a sl.out , ^Zl ■
,u.c.t.l„s n-n. the dock, and as ...K-klv as tlu- v.ssd o,nld 1. l,..,,.!.! ,r tlu-
uas, -nl.allv n-ocuvd I.v n.p,-c.s.„tativ..s l,o,n il. Mi„i.u,V and ,1,. V„„„., ,
Cluastuu, Assonafou. and Innri.d K. the Opua nous. Tluav was „o tinu- Uu .
a.n' ..nnal cc.,v„,o,u.s, wind, usuallv n.akc nccptious tcdio,,., ,„,- when I k ft ,
was half past scvu, ..'clock or within half an hour of the time that ,h . n itt a
.nad. ar,-an,cn,cnts ,.„• n-c to Icctnrc to the people, lint the crowd had hr^t ': t
.an and ,ron,ptlv repa.red to ih. . >pera llonse which was s n„ed to h" nt .
o . My phvsjca. co„dU,on was verv lar Iron, excellent, I had not the heart to ..i
the people, so I lectnre.1 to ti,en, on •' The Ihiohi Si.le of Things," as follows •
U„n.s AX., ( .KXTUCMKX :-It is ei.ht o'clock now, and jnst a half honr a.., I s.epped
sho,e alte,- a vova^c o, twentv-two davs iVon, San Francisco to Xew Zealand. ^! t Zl
n ^ .<,n,I,,,nn,,, e„.,n,l, to add,-ess von. If we K-ave to the evol.u.onists to ,ne s wl '
- -„e iron,, and t.) the theologians to p,-opI,esv whcv we aiv ,oin,. to, we still hav left
Un consideration the fact that we -n-e h,.n. \ i i ,
circnmslnie ■ r >r ,i . ^"'^^ '^ '' '. '''"• •^'"' ^^'^^ •"•^' '^Te under most interestin-.-
nu iiiist iKcs. Of all the centnries tl,is is the hot centnrv. an,! of all the decades of the
cvn nrv thi. is the best decade, and of all the ^.ea,■s <.f the decade this is tl e ^ ■ ad
>- llu l.cst iiolit. We a,-e at tlie vei'v acme of historv. It took all the a"-s to nnkc- this
-nu.e possible. I am verv thanklnl G.r this ],ca,-tv- reception, aiul tl c 01;^ ^ i , e
-i<^Y""- ^■''•"- ^-•■■r '^ ''' '-'''' ^•"" ^'>-~i-us. G.,nctox : V , :
111. 11 ^on and I liad been consnlte.l as to which of all the sta,-s we woiihl ch,,, , ,,
wa < npo,,, we. coidd not have done a wiser thin, than to select tl 1,:^ L ■ I, ^
^ ad that I .ot aboard tl„s planet. The l,est ce.lor that I can think of ,or the sk 1 , "
c .ha.c IS ^een, lor the water is crvstalline Hash. The mountains a,-e jnst h ■ 'h e i.d
h^ flowers snfhcientlv a,-oinatic, the ea,-tl, jnst ri^ht f^.r soliditv and en vc. T i • ^ i
|a ,s adinn-aldv adapted f^.r its work ! Sunsl,ii,e in its smile: Tempest in is
1 wo eyes, one more than absolntelvnceessarv. so that if erne i, nnt out w. si '
npon .hc^snm-i.. a,,d the H.ces of our n-ien.K < .„e nose, wd -ch !ZZ^^2:t::i f^'t i^
Wl
th celestial asjiiratioiis, or
ler it Iiave the orracefnl arcli of the R
It would descend, nnt:
\vaveriii<,r up and down, now as if it
oman, or turn up towaid tl,e I
iea\'ens
j'loverl) t],at " it is a loii"- ]
1 suddenly it siiie.s off int
would aspire, and „
ow as 1
me wd,ich has no turn."
(113)
u, unexpected direction, il]nstratin<r the
f
i
1 '■-. i-v:-!
1
114
THE EARTH (HRDLKD.
.Standi 11,1^ Ix'fou- aiiv si)(.ciiin.n of sculptnu' or paiiiliiii^ ,„■ arcliitcctiiri', a do/en (lifTcrcnt
men will iiavi.' a do/A-ii dilTciciU stiitiiiK'iUs and opinions. Tliat is all ii^.;lil. Wo cannot all
lliink alike, I'.ut where is the l)las])lieuier of his Cod who won d criticise the arch of the
sk> . or the crest of a wave, or the llock of snow-white fleecy clouds driven by the sliepherd
of the wind across the hilly pastures of the heavens; or tiie curve of a snow bank, or the
l)uruin^ cities of the sunset, or the fern-leaf peucilin.ijs of the frost on a window pane?
Where there is one discord there are a thousand harmonies. A skv full of ro1)ins to one
owl croakin<,^ Whole acres
of meadow land to one place
cleft of the j^rave (li}.j<4er's
spade. To one mile of
rapids where tlie river
writhes aniouLj tlie rocks it
has hundreds of miles of
jj;entle flow — water lilies
anchored, hill.i com in. i,-^
down to bathe their feet,
.«tars layino^ their reflections
to sleep in its Ijosoui, boat-
man's oar dropi)inj^ on it
necklaces of diamond.
How stranjre that in such a
very a,<;reeal)le world there
should I)e any disaj^reeable
people. I am very certain
there are none of that kind
here to-night. I can tell
by your looks that none
of you belonn; to the class
that I shall hold up for ob-
servation. These husbands,
for instance, are all what
they ought to be ; good na-
tured, as a May morning,
and when the wife asks (or
a little spending money, tlie
good man of the house
says : " All right, my dear,
here's m> pocketbook, tak<
as much as you want, and
come soon again." And
these wives always greet their husbands home with a smile, and .say : " My dear, votir slippers
are ready, and the muffins warm. Put your feet up on this cushion ! ble.ss the dear man 1 "
These brothers i)refer the companionship of their own sisters to that of anybody else-
sisters, and take them out almcst every night to lectures and concerts, and I .suppose tlu t
in uo other building to-night in all the world is a more mild, afltdjle or genial collection r\
people than ourselves. Hut lest in the attritions of life we .should lose our present amiabilit\ ,
MAORI winows.
THE WORLD AS SHKX TO-DAY.
115
it nmy be- wdl ,or us to walk a littl. while in 11,. Kn„u.sM;a]lcn ..f .lisa^rc-eaLlc- pcplc,-
tla , -opk. wl.o nuke Ihcn.selves .hsaoneahlc l.v alwavs scdn, tl.e .lark side ..f tin L -
a.Hl hen by reactu.n 0, s.m we will c.n.e to the opposite habit an-l in.iul.e in the fhust
.;! all the n.e arts, the art of lookin,. on the bright side of things. 1. 1 n.e sav at thi ,
H. n.v leeture that „,y „k.s of a literarv lectnre are verv n.neh changed .ro„, wh i 'tl
used to be I ,,sed to thn.k that a literarv leetnre on.ht to be .on.etln'no p,..f,.„n c v
-'-..<. had three o. ,o„r leetnres of that kind. Thev were awfnilv .^Ifonnd I „
i:ave no tdebyere<l then, lor son.e tinu, for there were alwavs two .liff.cnlties abont s
v-y j.rolonnd leetnres : the ..ne was the andience di.l not know what 1 was talkin.. a u
and the other was I dul not know n.vself. And I n.a.le np n.v n.ind that a lectnre .;; to
..•.n„,ethn,.,en,d. son.etlun. helpful, son.ethin. Ad! of o.,od eheer, ,or if vou c:u p
.. slo dder under n.y burden, you are n.y friend, and if I can put n,v shoulder nn 1
o bu den 1 wdl prove nnscli your Iriend. I.et n,c also say that n.v idc.s of religion a e
a h tie dd e,ent ho,., so.ue people's. My religion is sunshine, and the diffe.enee bet e,
:;:;t:;;nj':;;;;;hi;L:'^" ^"^ ''''-'- ^^ --'' -^'^ «- "-■-"-'' ^^"''^- '--:•:
X..W, in all the dbun, of photographs that I want to put l>efore vou to-nio]u theie is
no lace „,o,-e dec.ledly chan.cteristic than that of the fanlt-flnde,-. The world 1, s . e
nanv del,,d.tful people who are easily pleased. I an, ever>- das- surprised to f,, Is .'i; 1
re 1 clever people. They have a facultv c.f findino- o„t that which is ,nost attrac ie
i l.cy ..ever attende.l a concert, but they l,eanl at least one voice that plea.sed 1 , ", ,d
wondered how,,, one tl„-oat()od could have put such exhaustless .^.unlaius of a ,
1 he ],ke the spr,,,., for ,t ,s so full of binl and bloo,,., and like a priestess, stands swi, .
K, hercc .se,-o,pe,-lu,„ebef;,re(;od-s altar; and the sunnuer is just the hi," „- Z;;
f. they love to hear the sound of ,uowi„,r ,„acl,i„es and w],ule battalions of tln.nde d s
...ound...j, anus a„,on,- the n.onntain.s. .An.l autu,n„ is jn.st the thin-, for the,. ,1,1
<'roha,dsa,-e golden w,th iVuit, and the forests n,a,cl, with bauuers di,;ed i, . :e s ■ d
blood-red w,tl, tl,e confl,ct of f.-ost and stonn. And thev like the winte,-, w .ose ;. o v
,owe,-s ...ake Parthe.,ou.s and St. Mark's Cathedrals out of an old pi.eo.. coo " , d "^
I, wo„d-.shed „,to a ro>-al tower filled with crow., jewels. Thus tl,c,-e are peso, L "
w.th all c,rc.....sta„ces. If yon a,-e a ...e,-cl,a„t, they are the people vou like t ,,ve
custo,,.ers; .f yo,. are a lawyer, they are the people you like L Ueuts a.. 1 ,.^r .
a ■aphys.c,an,tl.evarethepeople you like for patients ; but vou dou't often ... t,
- a c^" s;;; w Hshr " v^ '^-^ "-"'^ -^ '^^"^^^^^^ ^° ^^^ ^^^'^- ^"^ -^-
. aler! Son.e eve,,,,,^., ,-esolv„,j. to be especially o.-acious, he sta,-ts wit , his fa„,ilv o .
place of a„..,.se„.e„t. He scolds n,ost of the wav. He ca,...ot affonl the ti..,e or he ,0,";
ad docs not beheye ,t will be ...nch, anyhow. The „,usic be,i..s. The andien e I e t li d'
he orcl.e..tra w.th polished i,.stru,ne„t,, warble, and weep,';„d tl,..„.le . a • , j
r 1 r"" 1 f ''^-""''''^ '""""■"■^^ "1^°" ^'-^ •^^•■■"■^- "f- tl- bass V ol, a.,d wic" i,
t efl^^eo lets and breath,,,. tl,ro„,d, the lips of the cornet, and shaking tl eir fl^w" ' ifs
I ..the t,ukl,.,,,. tan,bo..nue. He sits e„,otio„less aud disgusted. He c^oes horn s v .
Kl you see that fat .nusicia.. that ,ot .so ,-ed in the face bU.svi,,., o.. tl,;?^.^, u. ,,'>
I)Hl you ever hear such a voice as that lad>- had ? ^V1,^■, it wa,s a perfect sc nnwk T he
";^ays, > cube .still. That's trouble with v
tlii
"g-
TT„ <- 1 , . •' ' ^'011 are alwavs i^leased with every-
He goes to church. Perhaps the sennon is didactic and a;gu...e..tative. He
ii6
Tin-: i-ARTir cirdlkd.
I'lJIAN noi\si:s.
would pR-acli (lilTtTcutly, that tlie flckTs would pray diFcrently. They paiutcd the churcli.
He didu't like the color. The\' carpeted the aisle, he didn't like the fi<;tire. Tlu \-
|)Ut in a uew furuace, he didu't like the patent. He wrij^-^les, and .sciuinns, aiul friS,
and stews and .stinj^s himself. He is like a horse that, praucin-;- and nneasv to the l):t,
worries himself into a lather of foam, while the liorse hitched heside him just puis
strai.Ljht ahead, makes no fuss, and comes to his oats in peace. Like a hed,i,reh()<,^ Ik is
all quills. Like a erah that yon know always jjjoes the other way, and moves backward
THiv WORM) AS si-:i.:\ TO-DAV.
117
i.i onk-r t.. j;., forwanl. an.I l.niis in f,,,,,- .liartmns all at nuvv a,„l 11,. In-, v „ l
■cd so that tlu. lu-st tluM, v,.„ k.wnv, y..,, .lon't know a,u thu„. an-l wl.ik ., "x c ^
-n and thn, ti.. will 1. .lan,.- ti.at at .1.. ;:a. ,.. wm ';::'; ^ „;;;:, :, :t
h thcl^r.'"' r"r "'"'" "" '"^•"'^' ""'^•^•-""' ^'•^' --ice' will 1, . .',
lutlK.u.il.spcMul hcfirsttwu urtlnvc. y.ars in tn ,n, tn fn.l -nu wlutlu., tl,'. m
lie'..von .sc.xacniy phnnh. I,.i „s stand nlT Iron, snch tu,.ln>ci., \V , ,
anvtlnn, in li,. and ,va,i it nnti, it i. h,i,.u. or rca<l it ;,n i. L ri^^di ^Id
"l-n onrsdvcs than npon onr snrronndin^s. Th. lu.ut ri.ht, all is ri'.d,, Tl 1
wonj, all ,s wn.u,. A hlacksn.ith rcrdv.d a letter tn.n, 1^; son .i^Lui^l
;:C;:'hisy:^.::;rr;::::;.-;::-;-;: j:; •;: ;;;:;v;;:,;^;::::;- --- •^>- --- ^'^
"I)i;.\R Fatmkk: I am v.ry Mck. Sind uw
iilllr llloluv.
" \<nu soil, JiniN."
The father said, " If he writes that wav to his father he shan't have n ,-,.„. i
r!:,:t ;," 'It '"."•"^"^■'■' -^ '^ ^""^" "•^'"- -■•• '-^^ ^-w- :; . : d t et n :
. n to the haker and ,et the letter rea<l. He is a n.ild n,an, an.I he will know , ^ t
t. So the.v went down to the haker, who was in.leed a verv nuld n,an, and he ,00k
"P tin. lettei and read U ui soil, snu.oth, .i,n,uK, uaider voice : '
■■ 1'i:ak l-ATMi,u : I a,i. very si.k. Scm,! mu- somr- ,.,...u.y,
" Viiiir s(in. John."
The father sai.l, " \h, if he writes that wav to hi. father, he shall have all he wants "
«'l Uie rock by han<rin- tapestrv ot niornin- mist, the Ink s .vino " T u-ili ;„ - .
u,e ...cacw^.vin., ^^ , wii, can. the ,.;;s,'' ,jt ns ii^ve ^hr^vi \:;:::::::;Ti:t
CO k and the hear to ^rowl, and the fudl-fnuler to con.plain. I wonhl rather have a ma
; V . 1 1 '" , /'" ''"'"'"' ''■'' ""^ ^■'^■^''^ ^•^■••^- ''i-^^'""^t'v. Ah- friend sat f
a.Hl said, "I did not unite catH, H,...M.,.. . ' ''''''• -V'^ ^ '^"'^ '^■\"'^'' '^^•^•' ^^ J""'-
man looked back, and said, " I d
catch that last thin>r that
on
't k
was said ; what was it ?" The eent!
now wliat it was, bnt Inirral
gentlc-
i '*•
1." He liad conit th
ere
tn
TlIK WnHJA) AS SI-:i;\ T()-I)AV
to 1k' pkMs,.,! aii\ li..\\. \,,|i (^11
; 19
i>ii tli.tl iMuiiii' til
nil- til, It
li|l( I Atlllllc
I'
111 iiii.iii tlu' (,tii' r ,11
1
>ii"\\ ii,
'111
.■ll
i-'-' .1 Hull.' iiiiiliir 111 ihi
> I I'M 1:. lit
I'l III \ir Ik
K^iIliiN, ami
li.ul lallid 1)
'-^ nil am tliii:
dark
^^^ll..^vll.« hi, lu.l inainins i„ tiic' tact that Ir. (Imis tl,c ,k(
Noll (.iHIIC tl» thv III, 111 ,,| li.iii
IllaiilK !■
Silk' (it I
vt IN iliin- Xnw, I haw 11., jikiii- tor Ikaii Jli
icil ill I. \v!\ til
iii« a I., I t!ic<
Haw IK, ivtaiiiiii- kv rroiii aii\ mill
itlR"
that
a tailor's j^oosc i\,.r hatflKd out
imi\- or (.lotliiiiM i>tal)li-:iiin.nt, I
iiMtiulIs or I,,,nl Chi>tirli
K
ikIihI. all till- Ii
aupauN ofiikch luii-'s iiki to^ct
Till' l)ootiiiak
IT >ai(l, •• I will jiiak
-iiitkiiiau's luMil," ami t
\va> iloiK' ami the man
Kf and n.solvid that t
Miiitliiiian's loot,
a- I'loihiii- said, " 1 will mak
laiiiiot iiiaki' a iJtiitKiii
111.
K> Would iiiauiirai'tuiv
an
d tl
Oiif (la\ a
a Ljciitli uiaii.
I' iiattir said, " I will 1
Ma,:
Willt out, liut III I
<•■ a ;;iiitkiiiair> liod\-.
or,
iii'^^ht 111- (
IT al
ll- that everybody saw that aft
micliauics wctc nut to.^ithir, and tliiv wiiv talkii
li<l
Tl
11' w
111' was Hot a
> ithiii- so iHilVi-llv olltcl
..-. .--,,m,,,,,„ ,,,, juiHi-iiy olltcUlj
.nticinaii. Tlu' mxt nioi! iip. ih
iiri,i^lil)(ir iMuif in ami said.
l!J o\cT
tf
1,
.Sin
lUMl'tli
show
nia<,Miaiiiiiioiis liL-iiij^r wliifh wi- v
>oii cMUiiot iiiaki'a j,riiitl,
Hir lailuiv ill this niaiiir, ami a
man. t'.od only can niaki- that
Ndu wlKthcr a man is a wiitlfin.
Ill a «viitlcii, .11." A vfiv littlf thii
•.■xpcriniccs iKtuif you inakt- up your min,!
Ill or Hot. Voii (1,, u,,t liavc ti
Inst as a little conversation \kU
111 ii.i^ard to liini, and
iK will
> sec him in a variety
\dl
T
ie\ had (inarreied a <,roo(l dial, and tlie 1
een a man and his wife n v
eal
iu-.!)aiid had lnii
reat deal, ami he was al.out to leave the world, ami he tl
1 III
md yon make it up ii),;ht.
all their douiestie hist(ir\'.
hahit of lieatiim his wife
lie had better .sav
tl
soniethiin^r pleasant to 1
loiiL 'it before he left t
to leave the world, and I am oc.iun to ]
Voii would look pretty stuck up iiU
lis wile, and he said, ' M\ ,|
'e World
iea\eii.
I'sh
ear, I am
iw
slie
liroo
ni, and I'll -^rivc heraiioth
heaven
I"
•Well,
thei
r domestic hist()r\- as well as if
er wallopinu- before I
Have sometimes .seen a man in one llasl
>on had it in a hal
llOMV J^dilljr
I'on '^o to I'eaveii !
■ respond, !, •' I'.ridjret, briii;,^ me the
\nd you have in that little colh
Voii know I
1 of
iquy
a (1. xen volnnies. And so I
lim in Ciw iniuut
.utlcimin, and lu
es as well as il
conversation or beliavi. r reveal all his hist
and
perfumer make a ]ad\-, while witl
r he IS not, ami he is not. XeitI
HI knew him fift\-
ler can all
ears.
Von
ory.
say lie is a
saw her bend
fr
over the d\ iii'>-
lout am- eiiihellishmciit voii
II
•'iin an humble home with a little basket full of del
soMier. Her dress was very mm 'i fad. 1, and si
e arts of a dressmaker
'iiutinies find her I
le came out
tile arinv w
lor othen
lio,
SI
after the l)attle of C,
-■ttvsl
icacies on her ar
le could do nothiii" for 1
Jiiri;, w;is missiiii
.She had a bov
m
.SIi
lH)si)ital with a cheerful .smile, tl
11111.
.\s she walked t
e Wi. ted to do .somcthinL'
I'k'
pos.sible as .she pa.ssed, and comrhed
le sick stmii4hteiied the bed
iron '1 the wards of tlu
a fevered \
onnjr man who was homesick
jnst to make her look tiiat
cover to look as well
a.s
;ind
familiar faces. She wrote letters for him, jint ii
pillow, olTcred a silent prayer, and .said, "Cod d
fe
ired
that
wa\
he won!
.She cheered up
never atrain see
111 his shattered a -111, turned his hot
im.ssiiii; if I ncL;! I't t
I man, lie,iriu.<,r the whisper of others si
ward,
wliich had
that is missing"-.
o care for tlu
so to me and niv .s. ,I(lier b
that
'"^ ""'i iii\ .-inner iiov uiat i.s
se i-oor woiiudcl fellows." and as sho passed down the
been powder-bla.sted, and
loves up llie baud
lue
And
aid, "Cod bless her! .Mav si
th.it
covers Ins eves
truant, wounded in the head, and said, " Xo si
a <,'reat tall captain, wounded in the foot wl
le !4;et back the soldier 1
er l)')v
lis
])ered
over to a lieii-
ul
kindness linjjcrs in thi
hiA 01
id tl
lain about that ; she's a lad\
all tl
ic prairies.
Catt:
iN M,l(]icr's dream, and that ui<dit 1
That
K>ir .sliakiiiy- Icavi
e coiiiin,^;: down the lane. The clicrrv t
dd
le liiinks he is hoi
X'ISIOIl
ne ai^ain
rees in front of tin
Children brin-in^r out the tovs for him to look ;
'1. uiii- 11,111 a welcome. Arms of affection about I
house
:U. His little b
lis neck.
loy strutting the floor with
T20
THH KARTH GIRDLED.
THE WORLD AS SKICN TO-DAY.
121
yon j)lcasc to lower tliat uiiul, ,,.•:> r. • r
He tun.e.l a.o,,,,, .,., sai,,, ^^^r U^: :^'Z::i'' ^^^^ '-'>• '^^ "-- v.:y .unch.'.
l-tcm leathers, or Low bright the <lia„,o, ,n .: " ';^ T'' T^ "" "'" '"'1'"^^-' '-
.Ucutlen.an— ,ever will he. V„„ ,,„„,.t n,,,.; ,, ''^ 7-^'!"' '" '"'^ ^-'-^'vat ; he was not a
...Hn.^ frnn, Ilrooklyn to N.w Vnrk K „ "' ""' .' '^r''' ^^'"''- '^" ' ^^^ '■• - '"-t
1'^>"'I I-e oirered the ain.anacs. His other „ 1 ' ",', ^ ;''"""""' ''''' •^^''^ ^Vith on.
as if a snr,eo„ had honn.l it „p. A n.an s^ "^ '"'""' "'' '""' '''""'^'^^-l- ^ looked
wul. yonr hand - The bov said, " I .. t i ,^'V' 'T T"'; " ""• ' "''^'^ '^ ^''^' '-'^t-
"■'-"■ said, "Let me see it." ' The bov we„ , ' ""/ ^''^" ''"^■^'"- '"'tnul it uj,." The
>.K.kin.hand. Xobodv wonld .van : , ^..^'V^'''' ;';'7'-' '^^ '^ -as!.,, aw,„,
.ot It all nnwonnd, the n,an seated next o , e s d " V '^ "' """^' -•""'• '^'"'-- '-
•'"tlnn,.,^ lor s,:eh fellows as von " I e,,, Id , T \ ''' '""'' '^ "''' ^^•'"•' ''^ "P ; I have
''Si, thatboyisen,a,edinale^iti, r i;:^^^^^^^^^^ ' said to hin,,
>■<'•> I-ave no rioht to accost hini in that wav ' Tf , ^^■"•"•^^''"■^'■■a« for a livin.,, an.l
-'V'" ^'^^' J'^'"!''^- - ^'-^ boat seen I hear '" ■">' ■'".^•'^'■^^ ''"■ ^Ik- loose change,
pockets for the loose change, au,l I think •,,, 7"7-^-- -' tl-- felt in their
;'"'Ia.s. I do not know wl.J that n wa , " "l'^ ""' '•'>• -'■'■-' ""• ^-o or three
I<"ow in regard to bin,, he was n a i^^u,' „ f n '"^^^-V T"' ^"^" ^ ' '^^ ^'^ ' <'<>
"•-n kind of n>en yon son.etin.es fnul^; ^ ' "7 :"■" T ^'" '^^' "'•" ""^' ""' "■'-
"" the wav throno-h, ,,,,,,,, ,„, bad war ^l f riV''"'''/'"'^ '"' ^^^ ->' "P- and
;yas asked by his iViend if he wonld not tl.k .t- , ' uJ:^'-^ ''7'' " ''" "■''" ^^■'-
I 11 take a cioar and three cents " V n.an of..- 7 ' -^"' ' ""•^■'- '''i'''^ : '"it
v-n -I .ood. Son.e dav von have 1, " V^^T; ""'""" ''^" '' '^""'^>- "'"«'-'- -al<i".
->" '-ave n,et with a bnsiness 10-^.,"' h v '" "^ "T "" ^''^' '"'"^ "<■ ^ ^'■^'"-•^ -
V-. Von iVel irritated. Von i;.d s'i '' , ; n"' ^'"' '';"--';'>-^s have been said abinU
'" ' ^^■"••''' -" -- ""l.appv. (.nJo •,:,:'"'";' ^''^ ''^' -- ^'-^ speaks to von.
savs.''(iood n.ornin^r i„ a pleasant t" '^^^ '^-'^''■^•''' f™- Aaends con.es in/and
"-avs,"Ihear,.oodnewsabontvo, ha, "'"' '" - "'^-^ " ^ •-<! n.ornin,."
"""V to conoratnlate von than nnvthin'n- els. 11"" "'"'- '"'"''"'■'"- '" ''"sn'ess. J can.e in
^^';n.M-. (live n,v rej^anls to vour wilV ^;„ 'i '^!'^"!:''Z'"^''''''^ husmvss, bnt n.nst be
"''"'"' -•"•"iu^." He was there K- , T T\ V" '"^'"'"' '" ''^-'^'-^ ^--.
^ ' '•••"-•• In other words, v. , 1 " " e ^ U^ ' ' '",''^" '^''^ ^ "" -^"-^-' -it'
""'^■■- --'-''s. '.c is a oentlen.an" •""'^■'■""^ ^""^■'' "'" '^ .>->^''-s natnre. In
ta....^:;h- tie;i';df;fj:::;:::,;;:r:r\,^:\r;,;-^ ^\- ^..-a... at ti. breakf.st
savs, " Are yon at all embarrassed in lin^i "s '' ''^'"""'^'•^■'1 acquaintanee eonus in. He
*"'. 'tesays, "uotliin- nothino" "I!,,, - ,. „ ' ' ''■''>' ''" >""• ask that?"
I'"- asking that, or yon wonl.h.'t have asked i ' "w i, m" """' ^'^'''" '""' ^'""^- '•-'-"
''^•^"•< <"> the street that vo,. are ,oi„,. to burst nn ' T T' " "' " "" '^■'" '''■^^•^' '^'> ^
vexed and e„ra<,ed, to lash thi^ n,a> w j- /^"^^' '^ ^''f ^" Von .0 down the street
-"•'<-l np into a Any, and the piekpc eke vh , ''"" ''""^ '"""^'"" ^'''''' ""^il ^on are
t'.an this „,an who stele vonr ,ood h^^ , Yo^tuT' 'T^' """ '"" ' ^-■^' —
;v.t hont any particular attribn^; of wit ^hnnu -^ T' '"n ' ;""" '"' ^^ — nity
'".'"^-.^ on the bright side of thi„..s t^ ^ n, , \; '^?'T '^'^'"^' -^•■'■^^' '-^
t'-^s, keepi„.a whole drawin,-roonK "; l^v T • VT '; '"?^\ "" the bright side 0/
tl
II' earl\- sprin.^r \
on TO into t!
a violet!" considering itself no doul
ic ,i;arden and vou ,s;i
i'holc
■w
iiei,t,rld)orhood iuoood cheer. T
'I. _• J 1 . ,-1 _ *^
11 ere rs
)t a very insignincant flow
thatn
nst as
"wer?" "Oh, here it is.
■er, yet fdling- tlie whole vard
122
THK KARTH GIRDLED.
Willi rra,>;rancc ; so tlica- arc iil-is.his wlio coiisidi,!- tlifiustlvis pcrfcctlv insignificant, vet by
the ai-onia (.1" a Christian character aii<l oeiiiaity (;t' behavior keep all their snrnnnulin-s
hapi)y. There is no more winsome art than that of sayiii.-; pleasant thin,srs in a i)leasant
way, and no more distastefnl and olTeiisive character than that which always has soniethin-
iieltlesome to mention. One sprin.n moniiii.n- I was on my way to the cars, <^o\u'^ tliroii-h
the Xew York market, and was in a -ood deal of a hurry, hut I heard one bo\- sa\'to
another, "joe, you will lose on them <,n-een ])eas." Althon.uli I was in a hurry I Jiad to stop
I said to him, " How d,, you know he will lose on them i^reeii peas? I'roiu the looks of
the bov and the looks of tlie ])eas I don't think he is -oiii,',r to lose on them." Now, my
IIANANA C.UOVK IN 1 IJI ISLAM).
friends, if that l)o\- was >r,)i,iiv to lose on "them .^reen peas," would he not find it out som
enou<,di ? I never would take the responsibility t)f tellin.i^ any man or aiiv boy that he w.is
jroino- to lose "on them i^reen peas." The fact is, some people are miserable themselvt-,
and they want to make ever\l)ody else miserable. Indeed, there are st)me i)eople who aie
n()t happy unless they are miserable ! They have a kind of miserable happiness, or a liai)]n-
iniserableness. I do not exactly know what it is. If there is one lank sheep in the pastii:e
field all the crows within ten miles know it, and are ready to sit \\\ post-tuorl,))i examinati. ii
when the carcase dro])s. And there are some men wlio have a facultv for findiiio ,,iit
everything that is weak in character, and are watching to see if it will not become carri( .1.
icaiit, yet by
nrromi(liiii;s
u a i)l(.asam
s soinelliiiij^
in.!4 t.liniii,L;l'
L' l)oy say to
liad to stop
Llif looks of
Xow, my
l,«
;'?SW
It out SOI 11
that 1r' w.is
tlicinsclvi.>,
[)lc who are
or a hajiin'
the pastil :c
xaiiiiiiali. 11
fiiulinj;- Out
me carrion.
THK WORLD AS SKKX TO-DAY.
123
They say unpleasant things about y„„,- walk, ahout your el-thes, ahout v„ur iVuu.N .h.u.t
your ehureh, about vour elub-n.om. If thev fnul a half dozen , eopk- eu^ -e i
chat they are sure to break iu upon then, with >on,e u,>a,r.eal' ubj eP ^ uTT
was so un.ortnnate as to have l,een hun,. tlu. w,ll p.,.s;;t n, -lie m ^'w, ',;:;;
pun.slnnent,or.,odra.,,^in.,.alon.ropethrouuhthen,on,. If von laile.l in'l-us s , '
n.ake eutt.n, ..n.arks about bankruptev laws and two-thirds enaetn! '^^ :;''^:l
heard son.etlnnj, unpleasant about von, and iVel it their dut^ ju>i to ],t vo • „ ! m
n. Thev ,0 through the world tulhlbn, what the (ioodlLk sav^ w ' :, ^
vlnsperers VU.y ,0 all through eounnnnitv whispering and whi.perin-. J d 1 u
i^l a mUe w '■■ „ ■ ^""'-^ '---pi— ^''-t your health, and ..„,: i ^ , m^
f^^\ a little wean- they aee<.st von with, " Whv, how bad von do lo„k ! ^ I had a brother wo
was o;o,n.i,. throu.nh one of the baek streets of lirooklvn one dav wlu-n V
;;i.n .uid said ; ^. von the man on this street that is l'!:^ l^:::;:;--'^
rothu sai 1, Xo, I o-ness there is nothin, the matter with nie." '• Well " ,i.l the nn
I Ns- lookin. nn- a man on this street who is ,lyin^ with consumption, and I tl u u on
>^nn- looks that von must be the man." "No," said mv brothe , " I am a n ^^ - ,
stay ,n the house a ^ood deal, and I suppose it makes me look a lit le pale aid mV .
r«;:r; n-n;^ ::::■-- •-
£::;l.r„^-.,rf;;r;;;;;:;;,?i;-t:;;-::;-
^ la,.e to preach, and I was the boy driviu,-, and we had a verx- laxv- horse a„ w 1 i ..
the back pait of he waK^n and quote Creek epiorams, and then crv out at the lop'^.f his
^olee, "A horse, a horse, my kinod,,,,, for a horse'" \ow I liko'tn 1, , ii
.noted as well as auvl.dv, but not under such canbarrassi^ H;-lms;u::s 'ItH K^::^
e e a "Si- T " "'' ^"""'"■' ^'"^ '^ ^'"- ^^^^ '>'"^-' '-- '--"'l-^ cceentrici ie b
u are oddities that are criminal, for the reason that thev make inroads upon the la .i'n
tnn.,nt acioss them We .lespise a man who alwavs waits to hear what other iieonjc .'av
u^ :::s:;:"';';s "" '" '"-^^ ^-'^"^'^"^ '""' ^"^^^^'^'^ — -'-■ -^^ •'-- -
^ ted' S -^-T 'T;'"^ "'' '""^ -^ """'^ «'--- ^'•-' ='" 't'- '>!-tcrhi, Janiuu s"c
was 1 ■ .n"^ '"" """'"■" -^"""^^ ^'''"' '^ '--• •■■ - »"™- Pasto^fehar^e there
lu) c w 1 MK- V s h ''" Particularlv silent and solemn, he would ,nve one of
uioM. aw nil suee/es tliat von sometimes mr ' ' > • '^
■f tl
ie e
irth
were l)ein<r ripped out. Xow, man 1
ave heard that
seem as if the vcrv foiind.it
ions
which are life, libertv and tl
le
las certain inaliiaiable ritrlits, amonc
privile-e of sneezinj; wlieii he feels like it. Imk-ed wl
len
124
THE EARTH CJRDLED.
one l.d> a pccnlmr irritatinn in tlu' innu- niL-uiI.ran,,- of Hk- n..>.. that disposes l.ini to ■,
convulsuv ejection ol air Uwnv^h the- nose, I consider it his positive an.l l,„nn,len dutv ti,
snee/e; hut I set it <!uxvn to tiie score ,.f had manners tiial tlie man ..f whom I speak
wuuhl so olieii 111 tile most solemn parts of t!ie (li>ci '
iil» a pecuH.ir face and sneeze. ( »h,
ciiildrei
L-ourse take out Iiis liandlcerchief, inak
how imjiortaiit it is that parents sliould eihicate tlieii
How much cha-riii tiiev would save themselves a-'d theii
chihlreii. (.eiieral Scott was viMtiii- at a frieiid's house in Xew York. The ..eutlemni ,,t
the house wa.ite.l his son to Ik- ae.piaiiite.l with General Scott. He sai.l, " Here ('.eoi-v
tins IS (,eiieral Scott." Ceoi-e was oiu of those saucv, uncontr(.llal)le sort of hovs von'
s.,uK lime. Iiiid, and he came up and said, " Are vou (leiieral Scott ? " " Ves I am General
1 in '^(nn\ manners.
XKw zrcAi.Axn sci-Man'.
Scott." " Arc yon the General Scott that was at I.undv's Lane ? " " Yes, I was at Liiiuh-
I-aiie." "Are van the General Scott that was in Mexico?" "Yes, I was in Mexico"
" .\re von the General Scott that ran for the I're.sidcncv, and <,nt licked ^ " " Yes " said hi
" I ran lor the I'residencv, hut di.l not -et in." " Are vou the General Scott that tlicv caji
Old iMiss ,nid p-eathers?'" Then the father sai.l, "Get out of the room, Geon-c I wil'
not i.avc General Scott insulted in that wav." You ami I have seen the same thiii.r „„ ^
•smaller scale inanv and manv a time. Xo one is well hcliaved who has no re-ard for'tinie-
and circumstances. While- we have no respect for one of tlu.se ohscquions mortals wliom
we call the lop or the dandv-all curls and watch-chain jiuok- and sciuirm and strut and
pocket liaiidkerchief and all's and oh's and he-he-he's, aii<l wri-le and namhv-pamhvisn,
■^ liiin to a
ikii (lnt>' to
loiii I speak
chief, iiiak(
Iiicate tlic'ii
• a:"l llu-ii
utleinaii of
I'c, Cicorim',
I Ixiys \-()ii
im Ck-iK-ral
■^
t Liuuly"-
!\[cxico."
" said lu ,
they cai;
■,s,'-e, I \vi'
liiii,!^ on .;
for tiiiK
als whom
strut am!
(ainbvisiii
THK WORLD AS SEEX TO-DAY.
i, ■ r
one wiili
..o„.,„„f capita, ...an Cu,",:. ,;,;;,,'::;;-, 'zs:;ZuT "'■";"'''■;;
nmn.KTs, a„,l ,„. ,au.r .il, „„-„ass ,„. r„„,K - .:;,:::;:':;!',■;' ''T'"
1 , • iiie v-iuiaioi in a niuff voiee shontet , " Come in " 'n,, ,-
— nothin..." The Senator th,.n'<.,;,I "'IM ^i^-^'". W ell,— I— uiH,-_l .l,,,,-^ i^,„
... I....l..r .nc, if V,': t r Win "^.-''Mrn'' ',' " '- "'"^ "" '■'" '' ' '--
And vet It was no evidenre of m-,.-,!-,, ■■ rr ■ ""'".-^" '"■ ^\<-it-' ni liis f itlier s lionse.
s,..ak.,-.,f iiK. H,,;, ; L: ; : ;:;'\,,'^^':;.;r~,;''' '"'■■■ '"",°'' """ '"""■ ^'■'- »"- ^
.I..V. ,., l„„r ,„.„ since ll,c ; , a ■ f"T , "'■ '""'"""■ "^■'■' ■^"-.■-r"llv ''"U- l.v
.:,vc, a, a„, ,„u „.„,„., ,au. a pckaifc f„.,„'„is r,::k a L^ „ ".r,"'''" ,»"'' '"
were talkin.s^- luislied nn. Tliose who u-r-ro ct ,, r ^ ' ' " ^"' '''■"'^- J '"'s^ wlio
.vakucss „r circniaacv o„ llic pa,U> a „a 'am" "", '"""' "'"' "" """""■"" "f
>- ^..:.... r...- .1.. .,-oa. „au,c o'r life"' '^r;';,, ia,,: '„;:;;;:, I':;;;;"" » '«- ••
"^■|.-'.'-»".. .../l.i^Salkrvor ,lisasrrcca1,k.' people „, jcc tl.Jlo,,,,.,,,- ,1, „
cucrlainin.r „„r fric,„l, ,vk™ k , , "" ".".'" J"> ..' l"'- Ikan llial „r
..,.™.. A ,;;.. s.rik»":,s":r u, ' a n";:;; ;; s:;'k:av";'"i; •"" '"'\; "■'■ ,"»•' • -'
^■liair in our parlor We -rive then, H, r. \ • ^ '' ■^"■'-' ""■'" ^''^' ''^^^ •>'"'-
luxnries when we. re do'n tl t ' ^ '" '""' '"'""■• ^^■'■' 'l^'"^- '"■'•-'-- >— v
i'^tter than inst at that ti-.'^--^':. - -^ '''•'' ■"" ^''^ '^'^^ ^''^^^ ^'•"- ^'^^avs have it
•rli
ips It is winter, and one of
wlien \on happen to he tliere. X
III' our chairs around tlie stov
onr old
school-mates or coli
ow, what is the
use o
f
or reoister, and in true A
c.^e-niates has e-
\nu
>I11C. We pull
niencan style put onr feet np hioher
THK WORIJ) AS SKHX T()-I).\Y.
127
than o,u- lu-ads so thai all ih. >.„. JtHs an.l .x.dk.ncK. ,,1 „„v uUi.v nhvMcal na.uv
r'""' ''^ ^^:^ -'•-^-- :''--^- '■'• ""'• '-U t„ now hack uuo tlu. iK-art a„,l " ',, "
,..;:„ ?■; ■ '■^' '""■'" •""' ""■ '"'''"'-''^ '"•-•-• ^•"" '^'"^ "-■■ tiK. past Ml
" Slidulil aiil.l arr|iMint,iii(f )iv fcij^dl
Aii.l luvir hroiijilil to iiiiii' ?
Slioiild aiiM ;u'(|ii:iiiit,nicc lie Inrtjct,
An.l ilavs of auM Ian,!; mik-.-"'
l!ul aiv there no persons in this eonnnunitv who have pestered
ave nothiiio- to do, and su])posc that
\on 1
N'oll, as tollow.'
ia\e not. Tliev come and sit a
Thev
uatc . aad sax \\dl, I o;„ess I nnist 00." Vo„, .,,,1 of politeness, sav, " Vo„ need not ho
h . nd ^on look at yonr watch hopino thev will take the Innt ; hnt thev sit. X" ,u
.i^oand ta^e another cha.r, hopn,,^. to break „p the nmnotonv ; 1,nt thev .it Vcm kee
ohscue ,t \\ hen yonr tune ,s utterly exhausted, an.l the id a von wanted to pn
paper has flown, and U is too late to do tl,e work von proposed, he o,ts np s o v ' t .k
.Teat wlnle to hntton his coat, n.oves out of the room al a InailV pa^^, k e , "^n ^t a uH,^
t the front door lo,:,. euon.], to take a had cold, and then -..es d .wn the road , p i e
s on ra.es tu^on sonjehodv else. Co„,pare.l with snch an^ovance, l>lesse< s s ^s k^k ^
1'l.ssed ,s j,ot,t, blessed ,s the intlnenxa, bles.sed are n.osqnitoes an.l fleas and b „ hi c Ik^
and .randfather-lo„. le.s, blessed all cutaneous irritations blessed the h t i M 1 o"
annot sleep-blessed everythin,.. When I see one of th^se bores con.in, down tl, r e
I e.oss over or 00 clear arotuul tl,e block. I think one of the greatest bores iu al he
world rs the speaku,,. bore-the u.au who, at the Sundav-school n.eetin. . t n ch
^s'^-:;:: i; rlr'l "^^'"^"'^ ^ ^^°''^^^^^' -.etin,, always h^' the floof 'it
nmst .speak or burst. He has an example; he has a precedent for speakin- Balaam's
travehn,. eon.pan,ou spoke, so he nn.st speak. One of this sort arose i„ a lecn^dature w re
:z:^'TtrT 7:: '^^^^ ^"^ "°"^^' -^^ ->^^' - ''^- chan.n,aM ;:: Hz
le of \v e n "-""T ''^''^'^-I-'-^'-- - '- f^'ll "-talh- wounded at the
Rattle of Waterloo, ' louorance is played out. K pluribus mnun ! Hie haec hoc '
nun, for that uas the sacred name of (leor^e Washinoton's n.other. If it hadn't been
ee Snnd^v „""^V"^"'>-,";^'^'\'".^- ''^''ve been talked to death b>- the speakin,. bore. ' 1 have
W '/ :. '" "■''''' '""" "•"'"■ '''' I^™'^^'-^^- '^''■^^>- '•'-^'•'"^- -•- '--thed aoain.
^ ^ hr;tl "V H "" ^'■^, """"" J^'""^'^- ^''^ '"^- -''» '•'-- 1- the blues alwavs
'nh IM^u i P accon,plished author, was f^mnd kunished with a
Pui in Ins hand. R,chard Savage died in a prison for a debt of eij^ht pounds. The poet
I2S
TllK HARTH (IIRDLKD.
Oahh. u.,lkc,l nil „,, ht on\\.st„Mnstcr Hridn., l,,,aus. too ,„..>,• u, ,,av lor a lod.i,,..
Ho, UT, It IS saul ha,i Ins luoutl, ..fu-ncr filk.l with verses than will, hica.!.' Vkh\nu'\\u,
t.ckiul the world s lancv with the storv of Ton. Jones, was huricl ainon^ ,,an,,ers at I'.isl,,,,,
^v. hoMt a stone to ,„ark his ,,rave. Ilulkr, after thrown,, the world into f.is of la^duu-
UMtl, II„d,l.ras, starved to <leatl, for lack of a crnst. Tasso, in a sonnet, heos the li.-'hl of
a cats eye that he n,av see to write, heeanse he cannot afford a candle.' The "Ratcst
of Ial,anco„,ed,a„s,s,ef„sed ad„,itla„ee into the hospital, that in better davs he ha.l
..nit wa h nioney In.,,, his own j-oekel. John Wesley o..t ,Klted with stones. Milton w',s
blind. o,,„,-s " Xi;,l,t Thon,l,ts" wee the cyp,-ess that „vw on the «rave of ht
da,- n,t, ch,ld. .\nd the,e ,s not in all this honse an eye that has never wept, or a heart
that has never been l.,-oken. Hut thee a,e alleviations in eve. , t,onl,le. and pa,-adoxical
ns,t may ,see,n,_Ithn,kthat the people who have had the n.ost ' tn.nhle a,-c the happies,
he vas n,ajor,ty of those who <,h. howli.,. on their way, have co,npa,ativelv little to vex
then. We excuse a n,a„ lor occa.sional depression j„st as we cndn,-e a rainv dav With
ovcshoes a„<l nn.l.rella we ,,<. cheerfnlly tl,ro„oh the storn,, hecanse we knowthat' soon the
hcave>,sw,l shatter, ntosnnshine. P.nt who conld end„,e tlnee ln„,d,ed and .sivtv-five
<lays of cold dr,x/.le? Vet the,-e a,e ,„e„ who a,-e withont cessation, son,l„e and cha,-..ed
w,th ev, p,-oo„ost,catio„s. They do not ,ealixe their position. Th.v a,-e like the snake
hat the Ir,sln„an k,lled. He killed the snake, bnt it wonld keep on wa,.,!,,,. its tail nntil
the snn went down, ho he kept on killin.ti it, and a „ei.<,d,bor ca„,c „p and .s'ai.l, " I'atriek
^vIlatdo yon keep killinn. that snake ior:> It has been dead ever so Ion-" Patrick
aiiswered, " Vcs, I know it is .lead, bnt the crayther isn't sinsible of it." We n,av be bo,„
w,th a furebod,n,o- and „,ela„cl,oly te„,pera„,ent, bnt that is no e.xcnse whv we shonld vield
o,t any ,nore than a man born with a revenoefnl spirit .shonhl ^■ield to' that. We often
Hear people say, "Oh, I have a bad tcnper natnrall>-, and I an. not responsible." Von are
respons,ble. By the ^^race of (iod, von can have vonr tcnper changed. There is a wav'of
shnffln^- the bn, le,. f,-o,n shonlder to .shonhler. In the lottcv of life there a,-e n,orc mbe.
d,-awn ha,i blanks. Whole c'chanls of " fall p,ppins" to one tree of erab apples Hut
one nnfortnnate pa,r of Sia,nese twins to n.illions of people happilv born. To o„en,isfo,-
tnne fifty advanta.^es Ibnv nnportant it is that parents who wonld have their chikhe.,
con.e np oood and Ch.-,st,an, .shonld teael, then tliat ,-eIi,^n-on itself instead of bei,,.- a
.j^hK.n.v, dolef.d th,n,o,, ,s really the bri^d,test, the most radiant, the n,ost jnbilant, the n^ost
tnnmphant tlnngthat ever can,e down fnnn ],eaven. Sunday n,or„in,- io,nes in a honse-
hold. IhefatlRyomes fro,n his roon, to the roon, in which the children are, and he
•says, Hush! rin-.nv out those flowers. Close that n,elodeo„. The chi]d,-e„ will .et down
( we,i on Sp.ntnal Mnuledness,' and ' Kdwa,ds' on t],e Affections,' and ' ]>.o.sto,i's V.nu-
fok State, and we will have an awful tin.e. It is Snndav !" Snndav co,nes in another
honsehold, an.l tl,c father co„,es f,on, his roo,n to tlie roon, where his cl,ild,-cn a,e and he
sa^s, Co,ne, ch,ld,-en, tins is the l)est day and tl,e happiest dav- of all the week. Tln-.nv
back the shntters and let the snn in. Jennie will sit down at the n,elodeon or the piano
and ,^^ct ready to pk-n-, while the other ehildrci -et down the hvnin-books, and prepare to
s,n,^ Sin,,,,,,. Sl,o,-e,' and ' Rest for the Wear^■,' and ' Hallelnjah, 'tis done,' as soon as I
have read t „s P.sahn o David, ' Praise the Lo-d, mountains and all hills, fruitful trees and ''
b!^^Pi::r?:;ll'!'^""^'^^^^'^'"^^"'"^^ -'' flvin,lowl,let everything that hati:
" The Hill of Zion yields,
A tliuiijiaiirl sacred sweets,
liefore we reach the heavenly fields
Or w.ilk the golden streets."
a loili^iiiu-.
-•Idiii,!.',, wlio
s at I<isl)()ii
>r laiii^litir
Ik' li-lil of
lie .uriattst
\s liL" liad
.Milton was
ivc of his
or a heart
laradoxit-al
■ liaii|)ifsl.
^tlf to \(.\
ay. Witli
it soon the
.si.\t\-riv(.'
d chari^t'd
tile snake
s tail until
"I'atric-k,
' Patrick
i\' be born
lonld yield
We often
Von are
■^ a way of
lore prizes
|>lcs. I'.llt
lie niisfor-
r children
r bein^- a
, llic most
1 a lionsc-
c, and he
.t;ct down
Ill's I'onr-
1 another
re, and he
. Throw
he piano,
irepare to
soon as I
trees and '
that liatl:
l62
TIIK IvARTH OIRDLED.
■ I
Till- wiliK'ss was ()\ti\vlRliiK'(l. Tlif coiiit was iiidij^iianl. Tlif three eminent doctors wtn
prc-MUl to j^ivL- iL-slinionv llial the cliarj^e a<,Min.st uw was oiitra^ious and danniahlc, and tli.
Jndj;!.- said, '1 dismiss \hv casi\ In all the annals of jnrisprniknce I never knew anythin;.;
so nclari(Mis as the persecution of this minister of tiie gospel. A<ijonrn the conrt ! ' I
resnnied my ptdpit, my con^jrej^ation tnianimonsly standinj^ hy me. To meet the expense-
of the law-suit and the trial, John Ha},f,;^ard i)aid Sai.oijoont of his own pocket. I wa-
triumphant, and all ^ood people everywhere rejoiced with me. Hut: the strain on m\' ner\t-
liad been too jjjreat. The eminent Rev. Dr. lirainard inxited me to taki' a church in I'liila-
delphia, thinking that chaiii^e of scene would recujierate me. I assumed the I'hiladeli)hia
charge, hut my luallh was too nmch broken to keep it. Then the Rev. Albert Harnes, tli.
world-renowned comuuntalor, ad\ised me to take for recuperation a lon<; sea voya<;e. I
took it. I am here in .Vustralia hv'uv^ a (juiet life, unable to do work (,f any kind, bm I
iiave some means left .and so I will stay here and spend the rest of mv dt ^ s."
vSo ended the slranj^re storv ! I stood ama/.ed and ajLjhast, lookinjj^ at the narrator. Mv
sympathies for the man were wruuL,^ out. He wanted no help, but just the relief of telliuo
tile story. A splendid man blasted by scandalization ! .\. victim on "ilic holocaust of
reven.!j;e ! A deed of barbarism encourat^ed in a Christian country! A diabolism wortliv
of perdition ! An exile from home and coimtry to live and die amonj^; stran^^ers ! What
better is that ministerial .sacrifice than the one I have just told about baked missiouar\.
The Fiji oven was more merciful than the furnace of spite into which this American
clergyman was thrown and fastened. How many lives have been ruined by devilish per.se-
cution? Ovens for bakiujj; .sncli victims, clerical and la/, are always heated I Tlie fires
in them are always stirred ! The fuel for kindliuii; them is always at hand. Raked
mi.ssionaries ! Baked pastors! Baked officials! Baked merchants! P.aked mechanics 1
Baked farmers! Australia has more men with j,naphic and .startlinji; 1 istory than any land
with the same number of people. Many stront; natures despairin.sj; of any j)eace in their
own laud, and tired of the injustices of the world, have retreated to this land and have here
found that quiet and freedom from pursuit which they never could have found in their own
land. The fact is that many oood men have always been misunderstood and always will he
misunderstood, and .some of them have been wise enou<,di to j;ive up the work of useless
explanation, and have taken themselves to " the uttermost parts of the earth." I admire
them for that they had the coura.^e and the penseverance and the intellij^ence to cross the
.seas, and amon<r stran<^crs bc,!.;in anew tnuler other ausi)ices. (iod help the vohnitary exiles
all the world over! They may be far from the cradles in which they were rocked for their
early slumbers, and from the "raves where their parents repose in the last shnnber, but the
unloosed and wins^^ed .spirits of their ancestors will hover over them whether on this or
the other side of the Pacific, whether north or south of the Indian Ocean. Why do not
.some of my readers who are hemmed in and crowded by circumstances and buffetted with
enemies who are all the time headin<^ you off, pick up your valuables, tell your wife to >;o
up and kiss the old folks "Oood-bye," and take your ticket for some of these re,<;ions wluie
you can have five hundred acres at less expen.se than you can have a city back-yard, and
turn your children amontj the lambs, and live in a climate where the winter is so mild it
kills neither the ji^ra.ss nor the flowers?
In all these Au.stralian latitudes I find men who were so strong; as to take such a
decisive step and their heroi.sm has already been rewarded. But many cannot leave their
native land, and exchange the .scene of per.secntion and strife for antijiodean release, a> in
the ca.se of the self-expatriated minister whom I have mentioned. Antagonisms are almost
rUH WORLD AS SI-ICX TO-DAY. ,5
always aroused hy if.-ildiisiis <,,„„,■ ., i
i"-tiono,. J.L t '.M : '"'u-:';;;'r :""'>■'"• -;<>■•;•, i"—.. ,„..,. ..ui
-n..ot Kct tla. ..nice 1,. ..chmm.Ic . .ill , , ,1 ' """ •"'"' '"'" """^■'"'^^■- "" -^'
starts. 1..W,, 1.1,1 a„.I tl.u, u. will l,Hp hi,,. „. .1. n^ il ^r ''' , '"'''r'- ''"'' ^'" '-
:^>;,i,i,|f w.tli, \VL- will at a.iv .at.. 1, ,vc- this atislu-,- „ '''",'!'""• '\''^' ''^' I"" Miu.i.t; t..
ca,.„ahilis,„ se.,.,s Ics^ ,^;l ^^ T ^ ^l.^ ""ri' T''^' ^ "^' ^^-""'^ J-'---
tl>^- t.,rt,.rcs „f c-ivili.ati..,.. Katho, tl a„ c ,v tl l'. '"'■'"'"'" ^^■^•••^' '-- ■^^'vm. tl,a„
... pcsccti..,. which I have sc„ i":"' rV''':- ^"'"-^ "•"• >•-'■'■"' ^'-i.lin,„s
!Mu,<lc,s to hccfU a..., save tl,n„ hav. \^''^]'^^ •"^■> wl,,.. ^..„, a, ,0 th. iMJi
-ti, thei,-an„s ,.o„„., n.,. ;, t k., s t k: 1, 'n't ■";;■ '" 't'' .""•' '^'^^^■■'^■''' -^'
uf this letter, a.,d ,.eco...e Dake.l Mi;s;c;,u„' ''^' '' ''''' ''"' ''^^"""^■'' ^" ^'^ '"I-'-'K
i'
CROSSINC, THIC ROCKY M.)r.NTAINS.
' ■ I
cn.\i'Ti;k w
THE SHEEP BEFORE HER SHEARER.
G
III''. inu>i lii'.mlil'iii, ((.'ii
illi :m(l Ml.Li.L^lNlUl' lIKlllstlA
.\llst
r.ih.i is slHr|) vaisiii'.
r lir^t ix|iiclili()ii til
< >iil\ t\vi'iit\-iiiiu' >Ik(|. Will' laudfd IniiM llif sliij) n:
caiiK' lip SydiKv liail.oi. and ii..w lluiv aiv ahoiil a limidiv<i luillioii
urha-r, tlif alisfiii-c of wild luasts. iiiaki' ti
.\iiNtrali;
Till.' c-liiiiatt', till' In
C(Pimli> tlif l)(.'st slK'tp lidiiu- ill all tlir world. In \Si),, wlun t:
slicii
WW WlR' Inltx-lWo lllillii
) m .XriU'tUM lluR' wiav oiif lninditil and >i\t
tin niillioii ill .\iistrali;
11 t SSi
.\iistialia ])ri)ducv(l tlirec lmii''ri-d and luiis inillinii pound-, of wcmiI. Wiiat a n-iitiihiitioii t
fillip iiiaki.' to till' wariiitli and coiiiroil am
Cod .L;i\<.s .so iiimli lor tlio little it rL'ci.avt.',s. l-'or llu
wool
ln\nr\ ol tin' world
W
lat otlur crt'atiir
lire ol
c ^nass It luhhk's, most of it wild ura>
paviii)^ 111 iiiuttoii and laiiih chops, and cdotliiiin^ material, which kirpN the factories aliiiiii
and eiial)le the huinaii race to he defianl <.f the cold. If sheep ever tliink at all wlmt .;,
idea they innst have of the iiieaiuiess of the liniii;
111 race to taki- tl
l)ack of sheepliood and ])iit it upon the l)ack of iiiaiiliood. .\iid \et we .ill I
K' coxi'nni; Iroin t
in
Ir
that oiijjht to l)e <n'veii to .soiiiehodv el
.[■et from otliers. I-"
se. The fad is that llu' most of
lave soiiK tliiiii.
what we have \\(
rom otliers all i^ood inllnences under which wc started I
construct our liouses, others l)nild our rail track
ile, othc!
s and control onr rail trains, others nrj-ai
the Kovfriinieiil under which we li\e, others ixecute the laws that ui
rock our cradle, others will di.^ our .qrave. We sit down at onr table 1
workers of the mine furnish
11/1-
ve us safet\-, otlie
or ordinarv lood, am
lis our salt, and workers of the pottery furnish
us our cup
ind workers in the refiiierv- furnish us our su<,^'u•, and workers in the fields of J
China furnish u
l)ntcher furnishes us the beef, and the olive \
\\a or
s onr coffee and tea, and the poulterer fiiruislies us the chicken, and tl
iue\,ard the oil, and the reaper of the whi ii
field the bread, and the rice swamps of Carolina the puddiu- and the orchards the fruit-
It takes the whole world to furnish us with a t)reakfasl
sheep does no more bv yieldint^ its wool than we (h
oui
r thouolii, or our help. We have all been sheared for otl
or a supper. Come to think of it
We \ ield I'or others our strcii>rlh, <
lers. .\.re we as patient as tlu
sheep ol .\ustralia under tlie shearer, or do we kick and bleat, and resist and slniiroi
! )ne ol the ,<,neal sheep-raisers of .Australia told me he had ?r, rv,f, ^i,,„.,^ .,„ .,.,„.,. '^!?..
while otliers own i()0,(x)o sheep. His place is for sale, and n
told me that the takinjT of the tariff olT tl
ooo acii
ow IS \(inr chau'-e.
Tl
lis 111;
increased the value of the
>heariu,<,>- in parts of .Australia,
of us bovs found in .\in
le wool ;i fewda\s a'^o 1)\- the .Americ.ui Coii'-n
wool lure a cent a ])oiiiu
W
e are now in the midst of si
erica.
river, and the stru.t,role as to who oinjlit I
Ihit what a diirereiit pmcess it is from that which m
In those days first came the wasliiii.!^ of the sheep in
Kip
n:\
;■<) uiidiT the water — ourselves or the shee
then thirty or forty slieej) all .sheared by slow process. Now here it is done bv inacl
an
d tl
ens of thousands ])a.ss under the machine. The poor creature is fi
1IIK-;
uid its head taken between the knees of the operator. The si
overhead, and by an air pressure throuj,di a tube of
nu'^ upon its biic'
leaniio apparatus is liiii
which a cutler i)asses back and foitli four tl
■runiiing alono the sliee])-skin reiiiuves the w
;ntta percha acts u])()n a comb throi
I'Ji
liousaiu!
tiinc!
a minute, a
nd tl
ool WI
Ih
ns instrunu
jreat speed. .\t first the mad
1 I'jj:
Iui|> lili.Mllv
K'llilioii lli.ii
uiillioii ill
s, iiiaki' tlii>
-two iiiillidu
III I.SS,,
trihiitioii lli(
• OR'atiirc oi
t wild };vas>,
•torics nliiiiii
all what an
n.!4 from tin-
c soiiK tiling;
Wf lia\'e We
lilV, ()llui>
L'rs orJ,^'Uli/^■
ifety, otluis
ry food, ami
us our cu|K,
of Java cit
i-Mi, aud t!ic
f iIk' wIkii
Is the fruits.
Iiiuk of it I
strouj^tli, (,i
ful as tlUvr
1 stru<,'-<,di '
o,o(K) acn -,
This rn.vA
Ul C0U,^rl^^
■<t of sh(.t i>
liicli main
hfcp iu t!.c
hfe]X Aril
uiachiuci \ ,
)U its baii.,
tus is Jui; ^
nb throu. ii
instrunu ::l
lie machine
i66
Iac(.TaU-(l ilu- sIkl'I),
of Iiard breath
THE EARTH GIRDLED.
lu- slKL']), but now it works witli a prtcisiou and efficiency and liarnilcssnts.
wonderful. The ])o()r animal lies c|uietly under the process, not a stru-^j^le, or even a soaur
.Inn.i^. Thesheei) before lur slR-arers is (hunb. The sharp but safe instrunuu:
fnids its way throu-h the ricli fleece which rolls back and off and (h)wu. I'old after to!,!
until the spoils of the llock are ])iled up into oreat mounds for carta.i,a> and transportation
and the animal robbed of its wardrobe ,i,M)e> forth to ,«,n-ow n])on its back anotlier harvest In'
Us owner. There is to me a i)athos in such scenes, and I wonder not that some shepherd-
are the tenderest and best of men. We have celebrated the victories of the sword. It i^
hioh time some (,ne celebrated the victories of the shear.s. They put their captured wealth
at the feet of nations. The sound of their j^rindin- blades is' heard in the -rand march
01 the world's ])ro,<^ress. May the shears of Australia have more and more conquests ! And
(iod si)ee(l them as they <ro forth on their mission to clothe and adorn and beautify the
world I
The Australian i)astoralists' or slieep-raisers' life is not all poetic. This man of whom
I si)eak told me that a few davs a-^o he was passing;- throu'^li a room of his hou.se and his foot
j,^ot tan-led in what he supposed to be a -arment of his child. After awhile he got his foot
out and what he suiii)osed to be his child's -arment he found was a death adder? He then
.stamped on it and the adder .stuck its fan<-s into his .shoe, but it did not reach the flesh or lie
would have died in a few minutes. The fact is there are more snakes in Australia than seem
to be necessary. The curator of a museum reports that just outside one of the .\ustralian
cities he found in the woods nineteen different species of snakes— a fact that mi-ht be verv
interest!,)- for the naturalist but not pleasant to the tourist. South Au.stralia has fifteen
species of snakes, Victoria has twelve, Xew South Wales thirty-one, Oneensland forty-one,
and any one who likes snakes, or desires to stiuly their ha1)its, will find entertainment here."
But I know men who, in America, after too i)rolon-ed and intense convivialitv, have .seen forty
snakes without crossin- the Pacific seas to find tliem. The adder which the sheep-raiser ran
his foot a-ainst has led me into this para(,n-aph about snakedom. Now while I write, the
newspa])ers are full of sheep-shcarin- strikes. The shearers have stopped work all njiand
down .Australia because of the controversy between the jiastoralists and the shearers.
Combined emplo\ers versus cond)ined laborers ! As usual the strikers are .-ettin<r tiie worst
of it, because the pastoralists have means and can fall back upon old resources while the
shearers have no aforetime accumulations. Why this fi-ht not only in Australia but all
around the world ? Because cajjital and labor do not understand the princii)le reco-nized bv
a manufacturer wdiom I met in Canada seven or ei-ht years aj,H) when there were man\
strikes throu-hont Canada and the United States.
I knew he had thousands of men in his manufacturin,L, establishments and I said to him
" Have you had an>- strikes in your factories ? " He said " I never had anv strikes, nor wiil
I have any," I a.sked " How do you avoid them?" He said "When I find mv income
decreasin- and there is no such demand for my -oods as previou.sly, and I am losin- nione\ ,
I call my men to-ether. I have a room in the factory for that purpose. I say'to tluin,
' Men, I have called yon to-ether for consultation. Von know I have mv monev in thee
factories. I don't of com-.se do business for fun. I ou-lit to have a certain income from
these factories. Now I have so much money invested. I pay out for machinery so much, 1
pay forta.xes .so much, I jiay for wages .so nnich. Von see here the a-gre-ate. Now I .nn
receiving so much. Von .see there is a deficit. I am losing money oi getting so little it
doesn't seem worth my going on. What shall I do? Shall I run' these factories on ]uA'
time, or shall I stop altogether, or shall I go on losing money. You are common .sense nirii
laniilessiiL's-,
\'cii a so. nil!
iiisti'uiiK'n;
III alter foil I
iispoiUUioii,
■ harvest lo!
e sheplicnK
.vonl. It i-
nrcd wcallli
rand march
,:ests ! Ainl
Joaiitify tlif
in of whom
ind his foot
got his foot
He then
e flesh or lu-
I than seem
Australian
^ht be very
I has fifteen
1 forty-one,
itiient here,
e seen forty
p-raiser ran
I write, thv;
all nj) and
e shearers,
g the worst
i while the
ilia hut all
o.^nized In-
here nian\'
said to him
es, nor \\:il
luy income
n<j nioncN ,
ly to them,
ey in tlioc
:onie from
.so nnicli. I
Now I ,ini
so little it
es on h:i:l"
.sense nun
1 68
THE KARTH (JIRDLKI).
and I ask for Noiirach'ire ' 'Plw.i, r ,,. ,;. r c
^hcre is a wlnsp.ri ,, ,o„.M .L ^I^J^ T'^'^''^':'^ ^"^^ '^ ^ ''-' ''^"t- Then
sec how the n/atter Stands. '^ ." 'id l^ ■ b.d T f '"'"" "-^^^ ""^ ^^^^>'^' ' ^'">'^< -"'
run on half time. I uun^^ timt we n w ft '' 'T ''"' '""'""^ ^^"I^'^^ -' --•
think?' «Ave! Ave ' • sho t ,11 H ! .' T"' '"" '^'■""' ""'• ^^'■'.>^-^- What do von
tl- boss!' Ti„,e ^ses on,d le^i "• " 'T,"'"' "'^ ''' ^''>'"- ' ^''^^ ^''— -
I Lave ,L news ,or v;: tZ^^Z^Zw^'^^'T 'T "'" ' ^^^" ^" "''^"'' ' ^'-
kind enou^d. to throw olF ten per L t f o , l'"'""^^ "'""^'>'- '^'^ >"" ^^'^'^
called yon tooether to sa^■ that /<< no need Vr"""''" "'''" ''""-^ "^''^ ^'"-" ' '••'-
old tin. pav: Do ,on thin^on ':r:i;::d u' ::aZ;:7^ '^r- \ -" -7 >- ^"^
a ti,o-cr for the boss. ' " ' - ^ ^'^ ' > ^"-^ • three cheers an^l
unde::;^,:;rn:r;::;;:;:::';^itr ^,:^^^ tv^' - - ^- ^-- ^'-' ^'- ,
wowdiv poiiev. That L^, cS:;; "z^ :;: ^1^,^; ii^^:: -?; 't^ ^;t^'^
...^...Ployes into their ^o.....--t:i^:;;;^^^^^^^
It is i;:^^;::;dt;;s,t';;";kinr th^^^sJk! ^^c 'ft; ^-- -r -- - -"•
the woo! of ti^e sheep and showed n.e a e at least tw" -e in l' 'T'^'T ^"""^ '""^
j;ained was not so nianv pennies i no„„d hntl, f 1 '' '^'"^ ^'^'^ advantaoe I
"ess. Then the phanna v of ^,e Z^Mis^^^^^'lrf 7'^'^'^^^^^ ^'^ ^"^^-ti^v-
faniilv. The diseases of the si een ' . ^^ ' ^''' P'-'-o'^acy of the hnnun,
have astlnna, and plTuHs an er lll^^^^^^ T """■ "^ ^''°"' ^''^^ '-^^-t-- --^^ a"<l tlu-v
and bronehitis, an pZ ;; "a.^P^ ^ :; "llr ""^' "'' rhenn.atisn,, and peritoniti.
nuerestin, stndy. /a,n no^ ^X^^i::l:::::Zr!^:T''' T'^'''' '' ' ^'^'^
n.nsieal instrnnients were nnde ont of , ' /, "' '''"'f "'^ '^ ^^'^ '''^^^^l as typieal, or that
sv„d,ol of Gentleness or tha annn 1 T f' °'' "''''' ''^^ '=""'^ '''"'•'^ ^''•^^■''^vs been ,,
in the nmi^t of the T ron^ 1^ /'T'"n"^''" '°'"" there is a " La„,h
wire fence sweeps oun^for mi le^en'' f " ' '""^^ ''"-^^''^"^ ''^ ""^ "-^'-' '--- - a
sheep-raisers ne es^r v X"^^^^!"'''' ^'"? "7'^' '^ '^^"^^' ^ '^'^^'^^-^- -^ ^l^'-
the natnral world. Al o he nen J \^ ""^'''' "'' "J^*^" '^^'^•'^ ^"^ ^^^^^ ^o face with
the n,ost part thev a e a tal™ !ce T 7 V ' ^'''"^ ^'' ■^^ ^''^'t for
AnstraliaL descended n-^ r e^ho r:t i^ ^th^^ir H ^"rr^''f ^ '" r^
e; tn;^s s :h--.::^^trrv'^- ^"^ --'/^ ^-" ----''
seas for s,x or nine months in .rde T ','"'''" ''""'' "'"''^'" "*■ '''"•'^<^ ^^■''" ''^-^'-^^ the
ether Enropean lands T e J n itth ^'^J^ '"'T '^"'r"'"^ ''""'" ^"^"^'''-"^^^' '^-^'--^ ='-'
were heroe and hen.ines o e.X t ^n r"^^'""^''^'-'^ "<■ the.se ocenpants of the .soil
of the strength of Xh ■ ::li "T^iV^^^l; ^ ?" f "^" "T\T' ^^■"'"^" ^'-•^'"-
warm, and Inxnries become too .,ul,V \ ''Tl^^ '^
race {s apt to be ener " ''.:"'' T' ^'•-I-tions becon.e too ran.pant, and th.
ta,.e of the con.pelled tntdfo t le st" ,""" "'^ "T"' °' ''"^'"^''-^ ''^^^ ^^'^ ^^-'-
Hne to have heel, snbn.e i^:;, w^. heCl^" ^ T r'" "• ";•""" """" "^ ^'" ^"^^^^^^"
to every f^nnilv at some thne s ^ ^^ " "f "f "^■'''-'^■""- ^t is an advanta,.
Us histon to have ha.I a lon.^^ chapter of ontdoor life, .snci,
halt. Tlicii
s, ' IJoys, Vol
pped or even
V'liat do \()ii
VC cllCCTS I'd I
I am niakiii-
tlieiu, ' yhu
As yon wen
lowii I haw
Sive yon ilu
e clieers ;uwl
tliat, tliat I
from piireh
e trotible is
iare makiiiL;
oloyers take
1 of tlic last
:ed ill tlicni.
pulled back
ulvanta,<>;e 1
su,2;-<>c.sti\e-
tli'^ linniaii
:e, and the\
peritonitis,
k^\' is a ver\
ical, or that
■ays been a
s a " Lanih
1 Iiere, as a
<, >et these
face with
ly that for
istic of the
d\- are the
nipelled tn
1 dared tlie
itland anil
of the soil
211 partake
leconie tin.
t, and the
tlie advaii-
i ancestrril
advantat^e
life, such
170
THE EARTH GIRDLED.
as tliat which the Anstraliati pastoralists and fanners have been compelled to endnre Oaks
are not born m hot houses. David's life as a shepherd helped to fit hiin for the life of the
palace. Onr world itself was rocked into its present beautv bv a cradle of earthqnike
Coiitnnied health I wish to these men of ontdoor life in Anstralia. May their flocks
mcrease, and the dronghts which sometimes slay millions of sheep in a season be arrested
111 tlieir consumino; power, and every lonely watcher of the Australian flocks have tlir
conipamonship of Him who inspired the watcher of sheep to write, thousands of vears a-,.
"The Lord is my Shepherd," and realize in each hardship of pastoral life the protectioir„f
Hini whom the dramatist describes as " temperincr the wind to the shorn lamb " and
possess the patience under all the trials of colonial life of Him of whom it was said, '" \s ■,
sheep before her shearers is dumb so he opened not liis month ! "
CHAPTER XVI.
CHAINS AND EXILE.
<-*— What a »l,a,ne ,l,at h sho'd „ nJ^^Ll'T °' *""••""»'» '° """y "le flora.
To be sentenced to Botanv Dav fron, P„. a, dl ^'7','; ^' '""""""^ »'"' ""'"^ ■'
T„r,„gas_fro,.,.I,eU„itedSute.,. ,! ,"«".»: ,n"T:""L'''=^='"*.' «'"-•-■< •» "-
Tot,„,a. f™„ .„e United-Sta.: ,; "::;:™ ^l^ Xi^'
place had the reputation of « n,.„.i ..i„.,.. ., \iiiain>.
, , , , w.«Lv.c. 11 meant exied vllniin- Ti,„ r ^ ■ , "-^.^
place had the reputation of a penal colonv, the conv cts o Pn ' ''' '^'"' '''""^'' ^^"'^
all, but to places approximate. But while the Jo ^ . , t?^ '"'' '""'■" "^^ '^^'"^ '^^^e at
.ninus of crinnnal transportation. X "o e e „ ^^S A T r ''"'T' ''">' "''^ "^^-' ^''^^ ^er-
whenthe chains clanked as prisoners L'nbVrkcfrHt" 7 ^''^^
".ercy fought for supren.acy in this colonv fro n, 88 ll T" '^f.'"'^''"'-'^- ^^'^^^^V and
punishment for unfortunate Englishmen un \ln """"''" ^''''''' '^'^ P'^^^ "^
'Mbited. But after fifty-two yearf n,e c' IriCnhed^ ' 'f,'" '"'^ transportation was pro-
tions nowstand on the p,aces\vhere Th " "S.r:t Ses'T";"' '''''''' ''''^'^'
were enacted. For tlie most trivial offences for .T *'''-.^'' ^'^ "'^ suffernig and outrage
of a window glass, for abstraction of Xf If ,: J^^^^^^^^^ ""^ ' ^'-^en, for breaki.^.
word spoken, for the sligluest stumble in morals m!n ^ f' '"'""' ^°' '"^ ^^^f^'"atorv
never to return. If a man had enen. es 1 v would o '"'' ''"'/?'" "^^"-''-^"^ ^° '^"-^^"li'-^''
clerelictionatall,get him shipped r^£: ^ Z::Sr''T' '''''''^ ""^ ^
floating prisons, many of them commanded bv fienH ^"^^'^™'- ^''^ '^o'lvict ships were
fresh air, and the wliip or shackle or bhld 'eo:/l J' f '^'^ «^P^'>-iation frotn lack of
sicknesses that ravaged tlie rougli bunks imde th. n '^" "''^^'^^'^ P''^^^^^, and the
l>eavens. The albatrosses and Lg s he^ su h ^ o"" "" ''^^ ''] '^°"^' ''''' ^'^''"^'^^^ ^1-
their wings. Sixteen inches of roo„ fo a 1" O^ h"'^ T 'T i'"" "''^' ''''''' ''''' °»
space of fifty feet ! Landed in AustmliVin nen? ! ''""^''"^ ;''"i-^eventy-eight men in a
stinging cold, or sweltering heat and despair hdrn T'"' m"^ ''^""'"' ""> ^'"-'"^ -"^^
selves because life was unbfarable Van, o t lem ^ ^^ ^ ^'"^' ""^ '''^'" ^''^^'"•"f^ ^hem-
".ent. Irons eating to the bone or t1ie"Ln If • " '" "^ •"""''' ''''■°"^^'' ^''^ '"^'^'^'''t-
Charles Anderson chained to a\ock fo "^ °^^^^^^^^ T" ''"^ ""^^ ^^"'^'"^ "^ ^^-"-e.
connnitting murder that they might be h Z and so" ' ' '^'"""" °^ '''' ""^'^'-- ^en
I^r. Ullathorne put tipon the ^v itt s staid be 1 '''P' ^he wretchedness of exile. Rev.
tl.e Australian outrages, testifili i^the ToHn ' ^°"""'ttee appointed to exatnine into
those men who were t;d;e,tev,otr:X '''' ' """'"""' "" """" °'
on their knees and thanked Gc^d that thet " /^o h T,^ ^''^ pronounced, dropped
whilst the others remained standing! e'a Jd we pinl iT"' .f "" ^'^^^ ^"^"^^^ P"-^'
have ever witnessed." '"te and weeping. It was the most horrible scene I
Anst^!^^t;Lf'filX:rnmh:r':5f'f"'''p"^f r"^""'^^^ ^"^ --^^^-^ Powen
convict ships, and constalLutrfan^T f'"\ ''"' '^ ''^ -w, and captaL o
, jailer.., and turnkeys, abu.sing their power, were so far ofT
(«70
I-
THE EARTH GH^IDLED.
from roprclicusioii, and their tyraimiL-s WL-re so slowly ivpovled — if reported at all — that it
seemed safe to matil and beat and starve the helpless exiles.
The "government at home wonld never have allowed snch atrocities if tlie\- had realized
that snch diabolism was bein.^- jiracticed. As s(jon as, thronj^h investi<;ation, the abomina-
tions were jirovcn, the IJritish lion ])nt his foot tipon them, and Anstralia was forever freeii
from this disembarkation of nnfortnnatcs. At one point dnrini;- the course of year-
70,000 convicts were landed. One hnndred and twenty tlionsand convicts left ship for these
shores. What has been the result? From st:ch a blasted i)arenta<:^c, nou wonld have su])-
posed a most dej^raded state of society in Anstralia. I5nt here comes an offset to many of
our elaborate tlieories abont heredity. Indeed, we have all .seen in onr own countries n<.
many of the demonstrated tendencies of a corru]it pcdiijjrcc, that we have probably said thinj^-
oi.i) i'i';.NAi. eoi.o-\v i'ki.su.n ok .\c.stkai,ia, .stu,i. st.vM'I.nc;. iskd i-iirv vkak.s ago.
too discoura.y;ing for those wdio were born wron>r. But here opens a wide door of mij^hiv
hope to all those come of bad ancestors. The simple fact is that the majority of tlie crinn-
nals in Australia were not the children of convicts.
A.n authorized statement before me shows that in 18S6 there were 32,011 persons
arrai,tjued for crime, and that about only one-third of them were born in Australia; tlir
other two-thirds haviui,^ been Ijorn in lui.^land, Wales, .Scotland and Ireland. In thai
colony of Australia to which the larji^est number of convicts were banished, the pei-
ceutaije of crime is now less than in any of the other colonies. How .shall we account
for this ?
We need not surrender our theories about the depraved tendency of bad parenta.i^i .
But it seems as if Providence intended in Australia to demonstrate to all i)eople of all clinu.-,
that however inifortunate the cradle in which one is rocked he can mount into respcctabilitN
and honor. The vasi majority of the children of the 120,000 of those condemned 'o
\11— tlial it
ad R'alizL-i!
J ahouiiiia-
revLV frccfl
; of ycai^
p for these
I have su])-
;o iiianv ol
oiintries si.
said tliin<;-
n
*yiiir
of iiii<4l!t\
' tlie criiiii-
1 1 persons
tralia; tlu
In tli:i;
1, tlie pc:-
ve account
parenta.L: .
" all clinu ■■,
ipectabili''"
demncd '»
1/4
THK KARTH OIRDLKI).
Australia must Iiave turned out Iioucst ami virtuous. Souu' of tbc cliildrcu aud "rand-
childreu of those expatriated oues are uow iu the uiost iuiportanl aud honorable positions
ol Australian^ life. They are physicians havin- on them all the respcmsihilities of the
.sick-room. They are attorneys pleadinj^ causes iiivolviii<r immense value of propcrtv and
life Itself. They are executors of estates. Tliev are mr.nhers of hoards of trade aud
niana-e commerce. They are fathers and mothers of the best household.s. Tliev are
officers of rehoion, and carry the sacramental cup thron-h the aisles of the holv communion,
rhe mother of one who is now an arch-deacon, and who has been speaker 'of the Hou.se
of Assembh-, was exiled from Kii}.land to Australia for stealing a horse, iu order that she
nii-ht rule away to .see her lover. The mother of one of the chief justices of the.se
colonies was deported for her turpitude. I{y ri-hteous Act of Parliament manv of (he
public records ..f transportation for offences have been destroved. Kut better than that
many men and women by their exemplary career have abolished the sti<,nna of their .sad
heredit What an encouraj^einent and a cheer for the millions of people all round the
earth wiio had vicious or di.s.soliite ancestors, to start anew and open another chapter of
family record, to beat back the waves of depressing- reminiscence, and to be as honored foi
their exaltation of character as their predecessors were dishonored for their malevolence
or fraud or dissipation. We need to attach enough importance to faniilv blood to impress
parents with the ovennasteriuo- thon-ht of their respousibilitv in all matters of conscience
and behavior, but we must avoid makiii- .so much of hereditv as to discourage those
who would like to escape from under the curse of ancestral obliqnitv. Some one niislit
say that these excellent descendants of proflijrate forefathers mav have been helped to ..„
nsht by the punishment the offenders received. Well, that niislit have worked salutarv
results in many ca.ses but not in all.
Another large percentajre of j^ood descendants may be accounted for bv the fact that
many of the convicts were really innocent and why should not their offspring be innocent'
But after all the rea.sons given fu.- the fact that the regions once occupied bv convicts are
now as moral, if not more moral, than those settled by avowedlv good people, are insufficient
reasons, and I account for it by the fact that the world needed an illustration on a con-
spicuous aud mighty scale that a family wrecked upon the breakers of crime mav be got
.safely off and sail away on a prosperous voyage carr\-ing whole generations. And that
is right. It would be sad, indeed, if because a great-grandfather had committed a.s.sault and
battery, or put the saddle on the wrong horse before taking a midnight ride, or unduly
practiced someone else's chirography at the foot of a promis.sorv note, or meddled with
poultry in a roost not belonging to him, that therefore all the children and grandchildren
and great-grandchildren should have to suffer from the malignment. According to Sacred
History there is one unhappy incident in the family line of all of us that .shoirid make us
lenient, and that is the story of the two fruit thieves in the Garden on the Euphrates.
I simply state tliei mpression I have formed that whatever mav have occurred in the pa.st
the world has no finer citizen.ship than that now tj be found iu the Australian colonies.'
As I am not a detective, I have not sought out the undesirable things which might be
found everywhere, but I avow that the churches, and merciful institutions, the art gaHeries
the schools, the colleges, the Christian homes, the throngs of good men and good women'
here to be found, are .something for all the earth and all the heavens to rejoice over. But is
it not high time that this place called Botany Bay be freed from the derision so long attached
to it, and be used as Captain Cook, the discoverer, on his arrival here intended it, to sug-
:gest flowers, for the manner in which many parts of Australia are crim.soned and purpled
T!I'- WORLD AS SICRN TO-DAY. ,„
. .Ion-,,,, '1,1; r:^'^; a ;:''~,.;:; :.':;:, """™ ""■","«'; '""■;'""-^ -^ '""- •■' ""'"^••
SVDNKY CARDKNS, AUSTRAUA,
As I walked lliroiifjh dav afur day
176
THK KARTII ';ikI)r,Hl).
inoniu.H! Wliat pillars .,f divindy shaped stamen! What miracles of calvx • Wint
poems 111 letters ul camellia! What l.ainiers of lichen and nio.ss m.rurled on the rocks'
What IrcmbliUH: liarp of ferns plaved .,n l,v ihe west wind! What honevsuckle l.leedin..
with deep color all np and down the hills : What inverte.l nrmameiits of oentinn ' Wlru
l)Ine-l)ells tollin- their sweetness „n the air ' What nu>niin<r.^lories wershrpin^ the risin..
sun ! As mytholo-y tells us that whe-ever the tears of a maiden fell there afterw ird
siM-uii- up sweet and heantifu! Il.,wers, who know., i.ut that wherever tlie tears of the
innocent and wrouo-sulterers of penal convict days s.,aked the oround, there mav uow com,
up silver-tipped lilies, and that where the drops of hloud fell from the sllonldevs of exiU ,
unnjrhteously whipped, there now come up red roses full hU.wn? As Captain Cook su-
Rested by the name -iveii t(^ this bay the opportunit\' of great tliin-s in the science ol
botany, I wish to su-jrcst that botany may l)e an everlastin- studv in the world to coiiu
Other sciences will tor the most part be extinct. Astr niMinv mav be of little use then U
the worlds will have dropped like blasted fi.i^s. (.eolo^v mav be of little use. f,,r the rocks
will have crumbled. ,i,n-anite and basalt as easilv as saiidst.me. Chemistrv mav be of litlK
use, lor our world itself oone, we shall have but little interest in what were its component
parts. Who will want to spend his time in di.scn.ssino- a defunct planet? Wh., will want
to invest much 111 a bankrupt world? hut botany will cross int.. the suiienial paradise
Irecs certainly and flowers I think. The river of life will ma :e the place fertile and there
will bo pleiit>- ol sunshine in that ui-htless realm, ami water and sunshine mean flouers
In that laud the trees bear twelve manner of fruit, and there must be blossoms to herald its
comin.?. So that earthly botany here will be ..nlv the i)reface to celestial botany This
much I know that the Rose of Sharon will bloom on the eternal hills and the Lily of the
\ alley will make redolent the Iiiii)erial Gardens. This stroll to-dav on the beach of
Botany Ray has led me to think of the enthronenie.it and coronation of that beautiful
science which 011 earth and in heaven will be a subject of absorbiuo- and rapt irons cn-
sideratiou : the science of botany which we study here by pulliiio sepal from sepal and
petal from petal, and with our knife cnttin<r the delicate fibres, will in that land be studied
while we are twistin-- the ,i,varlands for those who are " more than conquerors."
CIIAPTl'R Wii.
ZOOLOGICAL WONDERS.
^--;:=^^^^^^
N\-w York. M. r,K. i, ,„rr, , l , V" ^I'T " "'' "''' '^ ">
SVDN'HY HARHOK, ArSTR\II.\
.>11 tl.e world knew of it, and tl,o finding of one nu..<.et of c^old ^dC t u^ ^ ^ ^'
Stn„,er : " that one chunk worth $50.000? attracted t .ett e^i:, ^il " l^''''"'l
be ca.nd and not n,ake comparison between Australian cities, es;ln' S::;; ^iS^;^
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THE EARTH GIRDLED.
and S\(liic>. Iiuk-etl the oiilv t'liii).'; I find to dislike in those cities is tlieir wholesale
depreciation of each other. Ask a citizen of Sydney what he thinks of Mell)i)tinie and ho
will toll yon " It isannishrooni growth, situated in a flat country and had a sudden prosperity
that depended upon j^old fields which have run out."
Ask a citi/.enof Melijonrne what he thinks of Sydney, and he will .say, " It was so lonjr
a i)rnal colony that it has never gotten over it." Melbourne and Sydney love each other about
as much as Minneapolis
loves St. Paul, and Seattle
loves Tacoiua, and New
York loves Chicago. .Al-
most every city of .\nierica
or luiglaud has a rival city
up or down the river, who.se
e.\istence is an exaspera-
tion. For the sin of try-
ing to set themseh's up
higher than others, angels
were flung out of heaven
as thc\' dosorvod to be. For-
ever silenced be all the
moan rivalries amongcities.
They do no good, but in-
jure and belittle. Individ-
uals, churches, cities, na-
tions, never advanced
theni.selves by abuse of
others. Subtraction from
one is not addition to
another. During my stay
in Aiustrdia, in conversa-
tion and on platform, and
in letter, I have carefully
avoided invidious compari-
sons.
It is characteri.stic of
the large cities of Au.stralia
that th'v have great pub-
lic gardens, statuetted and
fonntained and arbored
where the populations
.saunter and pla\. nenediclions eternal upon all those who planned for this garlanding of
the cities! Molbourno .-md Sydney, and Adelaide too, each one for itself, each a chorus of
colors and aromatics. Alongside of it you will find a zoological collection.
This land is the native home of the kangaroo. When good kangaroos die thev onh
go to another part of Australia. Strange, nervoi:s nondescripts are the kangaroos. The\
almost make ns bcieve in evolution, for thev seem to be inronipleto. and on th.e wav to
.something else. They .seem as if nature had become frightened when they were only partly
KANOAROO.
Tin-: WORLD AS SKKN TO-DAY.
:i;;;";:;' ^';::;" ::s:;r;;: ::;:-;;-;;•- "•- -•"-<-• w... ... . .,.. ,.,. .... !;,!
cither hn.na,. .., ,,„alr„MV wil '^^;^' 'l''''''^^^ to ,„akc- tl.is a.u.nal a success,
at least l.air tliat time t.,.levcl(,„ ti.e k- ,„! r , "'\"'"I' '' ''"'l'"'^' ""t" ^ nia.i, it will take
m.l tl.e first I.alf only j„st I.e., ,, • , ' ,, i ," T'^""" '" '''^■^' ''^•^'" ^''^^ ^^^'^''^^'^
l<a^^^aroosImvetI.e■M,,H■u■au-e,^^^^ ''"'' I«"^itv of fore feet
U-..c^. they lie ^wlf'^lc 'r ^' I!", r 1^" k^l.f ^^ ^^•!-;;"^^ ^^ ^■- J ■'•
nnuainlincss. It is tI.e co„su„n„atio„ o awkward ,c s T7 "% T ""'T""''-' '"•
IS the burlesque „f the aniu.al kiuL^don, , ''*^''" '•^•;- .'^ is the antu-lnnax of uaturc. It
.^ o.. are, and with tl>e fore e t ^.^ V^ ^ '" "/",' ''''' "' -orul.nn.nt as to who
^vhich. At one tiu.e tla,- w^re'u!: U U" H::!.;: f Z 1^ ^"' ''''' ^^"'"" '^"
statu.„ ^4000 were paid fbr their extilpatiou. H,U :,. ^ 1:^&?J^
Von ou|,.ht to I.car the parrots of Australia talk, for
the.e are s.xty spcoes of theu. ; and you ou,d,t to see the
. iauce of the falcous, for there are tweuts -sTx kinds o
then. ; and to sc. the " lyre-birds " with' plu.ues in
shape ot a thrunnned musical instrument ; and the
" H.wer-l,irds," so called because thex- build
arlx.rsand adorn then, u-1, «;l,ei]s for them-
sdvcs and their ,„ ' u. 1 . aniidst ; and
owls that look the Mjiemuest when they
aie meditatin.u the crudest things, and
when they are about to ])rey upon the
chicken, set 1,1 bv their looks to sav
" Let us prey ! "
But the strangest creature we saw
in the zoological gardens of Australia
was what is commonly called here "the
laughing jackass." It is a bii-d cidowed
with such a voice as was never poured LAfomvc jackass
t«" t»Wc,p>x,„,,, tl,e .„,, spoon i„ve,.e<l. ,S„dde„lv it o » d \ Jr n^f J."^, S
hat ,s those who laughed at nothing and laughed verv loudlv and lauLrlu-d ^ " ;'"-'''"^''
t.n.e,a,Kl laughed at the misfcutunes of others • but the hu 4 W '^"f ^^' '^^.^'f ^^-^'.S:
surnass tliPin ill i->,, . 1 , "'■""^'s , inn uit lauoimig jackasses of Austra a
tl.e„"ei;-e;! ' "' "'"•' ^''""''''^ '" ''" '^'"''^ ^^^ ""^^er please others nor please
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THE EARTH GIRDLED.
i> I
Wliilc writino^ of the fauna of this country, I must mention that the rabbits are sc
hated in Australia that tliey are not kept as curiosities. Tliey liave nearly eaten up souk
of the colonies. Larj^c rewards have been offered ibr the killing of them. Two Scotchmen,
years aji^o, cominj^ to Australia brought their pet rabbits with them so as to have something;
to remind them of home ; and that Adam and Eve of haredom have raised a family that
have become one of the greatest scourges of the colonies, not the first nor the last time thai
people's pets have become a nuisance to the neighborhood, although never perhaps a
nuisance on so illimitable scale. I could not at first understand why Australians had sueli
a hatred for rabbits; ibr I remembered well that in nn- boyhood if the track of a rabbit
were seen some morning on the new fallen snow it set us all wild with glee, and the old gun
that had not been shot off for a long while and was never shot off without danger of it^
bursting, was taken down from its place among the rafters, and the rusty gun-lock was
picked, and all hands with halloo and swinging caps were on the track of that poor rabbit,
and if after a half day's chase we brought in the prey, it was hung up with pride, and ai;
the neighbors came in to feel the fur, and see where the shot entered the neck ; and that
one of the boys who had successfully pulled the trigger was honored as a mighty Nimrod
far and near. But a rabbit in Australia is a s\ nonyin for disgust.
In iny journey through New Zealand and Australia, the fauna and the flora and the
botanical and zoological gardens have been to me a fascination and a charm. What an
education for a city are such places ! Would that all our American and English towns ami
cities had such adjinicts. It would be a good thing if some of the wealthy men, who leave
larger bequests to their children than is good for them, demonstrated in their last will and
testament some ptiblic spirit. Not, however, of the absurd kind shown by the man who
bequeathed that, after death, he be skinned, and his skin given to Agassiz and Oliver Wendell
Holmes to be made up into two drumheads, on one of which should be written " Pope's
Universal Prayer," and on the other the Declaration of American Independence, the latter
drumhead to be beaten the seventeenth day of June at the foot of Bunker Hill. We do not
like that testator's mode of showing his public spirit. But many of our wealthy men could
leave enough money to their children to spoil them and yet have enough to open botanical
and zoological gardens that would bless whole towns and cities for all time to come.
I will be asked when I get home if in any part of Australia I saw anything of the
Bushrangers, the desperadoes who aforetime swooped down with pistol and dirk upon the
settlements of the helpless ones in the Bush. No ! We might express surprise that tli-
btishrangers were at work in Australia as late as ten or fifteen years ago, but Australians
might express surprise that within a few \ears we have had in .\nierica, the Dalton and
James Brothers, and banks blown up by dynamite, and masked horsemen, and rail train
robbers. Every nation at some time has had to contend with this evil : Ruffianism in stir-
rups ; romance of villainy; glorified assassination; murder on the wing; infamy stufied
with braggadocia ; pride of dirk ; highwaymen in triumph ; death in fidl glee ; recalci-
trancy mounted; brigandage crowned. Every generation has had its Jack Sheppards, ami
Dick Turpins. But Australia has put down the wickedness. With the "Kelly Gang"
scattered and hung about fifteen years ago the chief violence halted. To see how deter-
mined Australian authorities were in the extermination of the Bushrangers, vou have onlv
to notice the rewards offered for their arrest : #5000 for the arrest of Daniel Morgan ; $5000
for Benjamin Hall ; $5000 for Thomas Clark ; $5000 for John Gilbert ; $40,000 for the
" Kelly Gang " before mentioned. A costly and imposing monument stands on the main
street of Mansfield, Australia, in honor of the three policemen who lost their lives in
fi
THE WORLD AS SEEN TO-DAY. igj
co„tcndi„,n. with the Kelly bushrangers. Why not n.onnn.ents to brave policen.e,: who in anv
passengers on a Rock>- Mountain rail train urgently invited to 1 old tn tl e ar ,s so as to
make access to their pockets the more easy. ^ ^°
More than anything else, I have been impressed with the people of \ustralia their
bin V ■ ''" ''-''-■ '" ^°""tries where their environments are hindering
wlien there is so much room elsewhere? In all these colonies are n.en larcSV cc!i S
m n,erchand,se and law and niedicine and theology, who would neve hlxx got n o if
he> had stayed ,„ the old countries. Son>e mistake n.ade before they lef to r^n d
m-e kep then, cr.ppled, or tl.eir fbllow-citizens had gotten in the habit of talk^UX^
he„,, or their .social surroundings were depressing. TIk.- would have alwa^■s b en mX
Inigs had they stayed at home, but the>- struck out, and ever since they ha c^ be freetith
an>- amount of possibilities open before them. "'
Just now things in Australia are depressed as thev are depressed evervwhere bnt the
embarrassment cannot last. There is bnt One Being in the nn i verse Xk no wso he
nnmensity of the resources of Australia, and He is the God who made i I>eo 1 tl of
the law of he pendulum as though it were the law of man. No ! It is the law of God
Xow we all know that if the pendulum swing out in one direction, von hav onh tcfw^tcli
It to see It swing out just as far in the opposite direction. Finance' in Anstralia a .Tn
n America, for the last three >.ears has been swinging out toward loss, toward dLmte
neut, toward bankruptcy, toward ruin ; but the law of God will vet n ake it 1' <Tst as"
ar in the opposite direction toward prosperity, toward success, toward opu e ic ^iS h
.gloriously true on a still larger .scale, planetary as well as iip'tional. 'Hi silver pe id i lii
c.f tins world began to swing in the wrong direction about 5S94 vears a<.o as nea Ts ca
ot the same law make it swing back again ? No ! The world will then Le ac oni'nli 1
t. nnsssioii, and the pendulum will be unhooked from the clock of the ages aJsl ce s
t
CHAPTER XVni.
AT MELBOURNE.-<<SOME BIG BLUNDERS."
OUR reception at .Melbourne, Australia, was as cordial and heartv as that accorded
us by tlK- people of Auckland, and in some respects the enthusiasm was <n-eatu-
( )n the eveninjr of Au-ust 17, I delivered, in the Town Hall, the followin/leciure
on " Hi,>,r Blunders," to an audience that tested the capacity of the buildin<;.
The man who never made a blunder has not vet been born. If he- had been, he would
have died ri-ht away. The first blunder was born in Paradise and it has had a lar<re fauiilv
of children. Agricultural blunders, commercial blunders, literarv blunders, mechanic^
blunders, artistic blunders, ecclesiastical blunders, moral blunders, and blunders of all sorts •
but an ordinary blunder will not attract my attention. It must be larj,re at the <nrth and
Rreat in stature. In other words, it must be a bi- blunder. Ut me premise that^ny ideas
of human life are very practical. I have not much i)atience with those people who talk of
human life as something you could pass 011 stilts. Von cannot. Such a man as that is sure
to be tripped up, I heard of a laro;e reli<,nons meeting where people were giving their ex-
perience. A man of great pomposity arose and said, " I am on board the old ship Zioii
and I am sailing heavenward, and I am going at the rate of seventeen knots an hour, and I
shall soon on this .ship sail up the harbor of heaven." Another man with still more pom-
posity, got up and said, " I too am on board the old ship Zion, and I am sailing heavenward
and I am going at the rate of forty knots an hour, and I shall soon on this ship sail up the
harbor of the blessed." And he sat down. Another man with still more pompositv, aro.se and
said, " I too am on board the old .ship Zion, but the .ship I am on is a steamship, and it is a
steamship of 400 hor.se-power, and I shall .soon on this steam.ship .sail up the harbor of the
ble-ssed." And he sat down. When an old-fasliioned woman arose and .said, " I have Ixxn
going heavenward for seventy years, and I have been going a-foot, and from the looks of
things I .shall have to go a-foot all the wav, and if some of ^ on people that are "oino bv
steam don't look out you'll bust your bilers." The most of ns will have to go a-foot "and
if anybody can point out to us the right path we will be everlastinglv obligated to hiiii 1
am glad that you understand my subject. It is important to have it accuratelv anuonncec.
Some years ago I was to deliver a lecture in one of our cities, and on inv wav to the
lecture hall I saw on a board fence the adverti.sement of inv lecture. It had been partialh
covered up by other announcements, partially mutilated and mi.xed up with other advertise-
ments, until the announcement on the board fence read .something like this :
" Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage will, to-morrow night, at Wieting's Hall, hold the fifth
annual fireman's ball, will walk 100 consecutive hours without food or sleep, will welcoiik
to tlie city Heeiian, the champion of pugilists, will run , sorrel horse again.st anv otlur
for a purse of $500 ! "
I never had such an embarrassing amount of work to do in one night in all my lilV.
You 'have no such extravagant anticipations, but are only to listen while I speak to vcu
about big blunders.
Blunder the first : Mnltiplicitv of occupations. I have n friend who is a very -oc!
painter, and a very good poet, and a very good speaker, and he can do a lialf dozen 'tlllii-s
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THE WORLD AS SEEN TO-DAY. 183
well, but he is the exception. The j,e„eral rule is that a „,an can ,1., onlv one thinsr
^vel]. Perhaps there are two thin^^s to <lo. First, fiu.l your sphere ; second Iv kC it
rie general rule :s, n.asons, stick to your trowel ; carpenters, stick to vo„r pi ^■' ,, ., '
Th i.tyr::fr;:T^-'^' ' ""^■' "->-^----^'"P; professor,one^lepartn,;;,t:
i nu My men of ah piofessions were men of one occupation. Thorvalstou at sculi,tnre
sus. That is absurd. That
is not the way men get in-
spirati. .. It is not the man
(" '" mountain, but the
'■ un on the man, and
tiic effort to throw it off that
brings men to the position
for which God inten.''ed
them. Hut the general rule
is that by the time thirty
years of age is reached the
occupation is thoroughly de-
cided, and there will be suc-
cess in that direction if it be
thoroughly followed. It
docs not make much differ-
ence what yon do, so far as
the mere item of success is
concerned, if you only do it.
Hrandreth can make a for-
ttme at pills, Adams by expressage, Cooper by manufacturing glue, (ienin bv sellin-^ hats
contractors by nuanufacturing shoddy, n.erchants by putting sand in sugar.'beet juice n
vmegar, clncory ,n coffee, and lard in butter. One of the%ostliest dw' 11 n<" i, Pli
d Iplna was bmlt out of eggs. Palaces have been built out of spools, out ^f tooth ^le
drops, out o Indes, out of p,gs' feet, out of pickles, out of tooth-brushes, out of hose
h-o-s-e and h-o-e-s, out of fine-tooth combs, out of ice, out of water, out o birds, out of
bones, out of shells, out of .steam, out of thunder and lightning
The difference between conditions in life is not so much a difference in the fruitfnlness
occupafons as U .s a difference in the endown,ent of n.en with that great and n.a.- ficen
attr,bnte of st,ck-to-Uu-eness. Mr. Plod-on was doing a flourishi.rg business .^ sdl ■
bant,es, bu he wanted to do all kinds of huck.stering, and his nice little prop tvtok
w,„gs of ducks and tttrkeys and shanghais and fiew awav. Air. Loon.d "!^- -- ^^
excellent flictory on the Merrii " ''"""'f^i
TOWN HAI.I, ORGAN, FIFTH l.AKC.EST IN THL: WORI,,,, M lU.I.OfRNK,
Al'STKAI.IA.
made beautiful carjjcts. but he concluded
to put up
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Till-: i<;arth (UrdijvD.
another kind of factory \'cv tlu' making of shawls, ami one day tluTO was a nice little
qiianrl iR'twe-Jii the two factoiies, and the carpels ate up the shawls, and the shawls ate up
the carpets, and 1
and ,!^ul])ed down
U" sueei'eded so wi.ll in sw.illowi
UiJ
aeli other, tliev turned aronu
I.
di
oouHlru'ei'.
lUaekslone UarL-e-Traetiee was the best lawver in t
own.
\h
cou
Id nuike tlie most
plansihle ar^n
nieul and had the largest retainer, and some (
th
e youu!^ men ot the inotc
sion were |)rond to wear their hair just as he did, and to ha\e Just as l)i,i;a shirt collar
he concluded to j>;i) into polities. He entered that paradise which men call a caucas
He came within three votes of sjettiu" it. He i
own.
Jim
He
K'\er
;ind
was voted up and he was voted d
jjot any nearer than tiiree votes. He ,<;()t ou the Chicaj^o i)latforni, hut a plank broke
he slii>])ed ihroui^h. He i^ol on the St. I^ouis platform, but it rocked like an eartlupiaki
and a plank broke and h.e siip]>ed ihron^h. The
horse whirls rounc
the St. I.onis i)latl
II, as a circus ruler w
itl; one lV)ot on each
1 the riuLj, he put one foot on the Chica,>;c) jilatform and another foot on
"orm, and he sli|)ped between, and laudiuj.;- in a ditch of ])olitical obhxpiy,
he concluded he h..d eiu)U|4h of politics. .\nd he came back to his law office and as he
entered coxered with the mire, all the briefs from the piiLjeon hole rustled with gladness, and
Kent's Commentaries, and Liviui-ston's Law Res-ister broke forth in the exclamation,
Welcome home. Hon')ral)le Hlackslone I^
none.
i)r. Hone-.Setter '
ii-oe-Practice, jaci
dl trades is master of
was a master in the healin.i.j profession. No man was more welcoi
lie
ii: am body's house than this .same Dr. Hone-.Setler, and the ])eople loved to see him ]xi--s
and tlioui^ht there was in his old i^i.L; a kind of religious rattle. When he entered the dm-
store all the niediciues knew him, and the pills would toss about like a rattle box, and the
i|uinine would shake as thoui^h it had the chills, and the .threat streuL^thcnint;- jilasters unroll,
and the soda fountain
liz/, as much as to sav,
W
\()U
lake \anilla or strawberrx' ? '
Ridinjx alono- in his ,<j;iif one da\- he fell into a thou.i^htful mood, and concluded to enter the
ininistrv. He mounted the pulpit and the pnlpil mounted him, and it
was a lou''- Willie
before it was known who was of the nio.-t importance. The youiii:^ people said the i)reacli-
ir-.H' was dry, an;l the nierchant could not keej) from making- financial calculations in the
back ])art of the psalm-book, and the church thinned out and everythiii.L;; went wn
Well, one .Moiida\- nioriiiii,<j^
Dr.
M
I'ssrs.
I'lod-on, Loomdriver, l51ackstone Lan'c-l'racl
JUU.
ice ami
'ion
e-Se'iier met at one corner of the street, and all felt so low-spirited thai one of lliein
prop-.sed to sins.;' a son.^- for the pnrjio.se of j^ettint; their spirits np. I have forgotten all but
the chorus, but you would have been amused to hear how, at the end of all the verses, the
voices came in, "Jack of all trade'-, is master of none." A man from the country districts
came to be rresiilenl of the I'uited Slates, am
I some one asked a fanner from that re<
loll
what .sort of a I'lvsideiit Mr. So-aud-so would make. The repiv was, " He's ;i .i^ood deal of
a man in our little town, but I think if
\vi
11 be mi'ditv tliii
So th
\()U si>read him out over all the rnile<l vSlates
ibl
lere are men admirable in one occupation or profession, but
s])read out their eiieri>;ies over a dozen tliinj^s to do and they are dead failures. Vouiis.
man, concentrate all vour eiier<fies in one direction. He not afraid to be called a man
of one idea. Hetter have one j^reat idea than five hundred little bits of ones. Are \(m
merchants, yon will find a1)nndaiit sweep for \our iutellect in a business wdiicli ab.sorlKii
the enerjjv of a Lenox, a Stewart, and a (kinuell. .\re you lawyers, yon will in vour
jjraiid ]irofessioii find lieij^hts and depths of attainment which tasked a Marshall, and ,i
McI,' an, and a Story, and a Kent. ,\re you plusician.s, you can afford to wa.ste but
little time outside of a profession which was the pride of a R
a Svdeiiham.
usli, ;i
Her\ey, a Cooper, am!
r.v.snRAi. posT-oin-icT^. sydnev, aistraiia
>i...'..Ki ^ive I- »;: ; r*?;::r ,,;™ ";- ■' "- ^^ » :. ^.e
m.n.,,1 cnlil,,,' ,n° ' or ™^ 1 n T ' T ^ """" "' ''^'^'""'' "' """"""• "-I"" >""r
1 86
THE EARTH GIRDLED.
I^luiidei- the next : indiil.uviK'L- in U'IIiikt. (".m.hI hniiior will sell tlie most tjoodF, plead
the best art,runieiit, el'lecl the l)esl cure, i)ieacli liie l)est scriiioii, build the best wail, weave
the best carpel. Tlie i)<).)iesl l)nsiness firm in town is "Growl, Spitfire & Hrothers." They
l)l(.w Iheir elerks. Tliey insult their enslnuiers. They quarrel with the draymen. Tliey
write impudent duns, They kick the be,L;.uais. The ehildren shy off as they pass the
street and the d(),<,-s with wild ytlp clear the i)ath as they come. Acrid, waspish, fretful,
exi)losivc, saturnine, suddenly tlie mune\- market will be astounded with the defalcation of
C.r.iwl, Spitlire lS: llrotlurs. derryman ^: \Varm>;rasp were poor boys when they came from
the eomilrv. 'IMiey broui^ht all their possessions in one little pack slunj^ over their shoulder.
TwM socks, two collars, one jacknife, a paper of i)ins and a hunk of <ringcrbread which
their mother .uave them when she kissul them .o(,od-bye, and told them to be <;ood boys and
mind tlie boss\ They smiled and hni-hed and bowed and worked themselves up hiolier and
hi,i;her in the estimation of their emi)lo\ ers. Tliey .soon had a store on the corner. Thev
wxTe oblii,dno men, and people from the country left their carpet bass in that store when
they came t(i tt)wn. Henceforth wdicn the farmers want hardware or clothinjj or books they
went to buv ii at tiie jilace where their carpet ba.t;s had been treated so kindly. The firm
had a wav of holdiiij,^ up a yard of cloth and shininjr on it so that plain cassimere would
look almost as well as French broadcloth, and an earihen pitcher would <,disten like
porcelain. Not by the force of capital, but by havin^r money dfawer and counting dc^k
and counter and .shelves all full of i^ood temper, ".ey rose in .society until to-day Merryman
& Warm.nrasi-) have one of the largest stores and the most elegant show windows and the
finest cai-riages and the prettiest wives in all the town of Shuttleford. A melancholv
musician mav compose a " Dead March," and make harp w^ep and organ wail ; but will not
master a battle march, or with that grand old in.strnment, the organ, storm the castles of the
soul as with the flying artillery of light and love and joy until the organ pipes seem filUd
with a thousand clap]Miig hosannas. A melancholy poet may write a Dante's Inferno until
out of his hot brain there come steaming up barking Cerebus and wan sprite, but not the
chime of Moore's melodies or the roll of Pope's Dunciad, or the trumpet call of Scott's
Don Roderick, or the archangelic blast of Milton's Paradi.se Lost. A melancholy painter
may with Salvator sketch death and gloom and moiisfosity. But he cannot reach the
tremor of silverv leaf, or the shining of sun through mountain pine, or the light of morning;
struck through a foam wreath, or the rising sun leai>ing on the sapphire battlements with
banners of flame, or the gorgeous " Heart of the Andes," as though all the bright colors of
earth and heaven had fought a great battle and left their blood on the leaves.
Plunder the next : Hxcessive amusement. I say nothing against amusement. Persitns
of vour teni])erament and mine, could hardly live without it. I have noticed that a child
wdio has no vivacitv of sjiirit, in after Hie i)roduces no fruitfulne.ss of uioral character. .V
tree that has no blossoms in the spring will have no ajiples in the fall. A good game at ball is
great sport. The sky is clear. The ground is just right for fast running. The club jMit
off their coats and put on their caps. The ball is round and hard and stuffed with iliiiuil-
able bounce. Get ready the bats and take your positions. Now, give us a ball. Too Inw,
Don't strike. Too high. Don't strike. There it comes like lightning. Strike ! Awav it
.soars higher, higher. Run! .\nother base. Faster. Paster. Good! All around at one
stroke. "^ All hail to the man or the big boy wdio invented ball playing. After tea open the
checker board. Now, look out, or your boy Pob will beat you. With what masterl> skill
he moves up his men. Look out now, or he will jump you. Sure enough, two of yinir
men gone from the b->ard and a king for Bob. With what cruel pleasure he sweeps the
elll.
4
W4
THE WORLD AS SHivX TO-DAV
lodF, plead
all, wtave
s." They
-■n. They
; jxiss tlit>
sh, fret fill,
ilcation o\
eaine t'roin
r shoulder,
ead wliich
;1 boys and
hi}4her and
ler. Thev
■itore when
books they
The firm
Here would
listen Hke
nting de^k
Merrynian
NS and the
nelaucholy
)nt will not
sties of the
seem filled
iferno nntil
lut not the
of Scott's
oly painter
: reach the
of niorninif
nients with
lit colors of
it, Persoi'.s
that a child
aracler. A
ne at ball is
e clul) i>iit
vith iliiuiii-
Too ]<iw.
! A was it
)und at line
ea open the
asterly skill
wo of y<i;;r
sweeps the
1S7
hoard. What! r,„lv two uu.re uun left ^ P.. careful now. ( .ulv ,.„. nu.re uu.ve p„ssi-
l.le. Cornered sure a.s fate! and I!„b ben.ls over, and looks yon in the lace with a mnst
im.vokni- banter, and say.s, " Pop, whv don't von ni..ve ^ "
Call np the do<;s, Tra^•, Hla.ichard and Sweetheart. A ,„..»] dav for lunuin-.. (;,t
do' ., Irav, with your du-ty feet! Put on pow.ler llask and .shoulder the j,miii. Over the
li:.. and through the wood. Hoys, don't make such a racket vou'll scare tlie -.anic There's
a'-abbU. Scpiat. Take, ood aim. Han,! Missed him. Yonder he .oefsic '^^i
All rca.lN. See how the buckl.s o-h.ten, ami how the horses ,, ranee, and the spnko llashin
the s„n. Xow open the ,ate. .\wav we :,o. I.a the gravel llv, an.l the tires rattle over
r
TOW.N HAt.I., SVI)N-|:v.
the pavement, and the horses' hoots clatter aii<l rin.o. Good road.s now. and let them flv
Crack the whip, (rhm.^^! Nimble horses with smooth road.s, in a plea.sant dav, and no
ol oatcs-clatter, clatter, clatter. I never sec a man ^o out with a fishin.,. rod tosport but
I sikaitK- sav, • Ma^• yon have a -ood time, and the ri-ht kind of bait, and a basketful of
catlish and floundei-s." I ...ver .see a party takin^^ a pleasant ri.le but I wish them a jovons
round, and sa^■, ' Ma>- the horse not cast a shoe, nor the trace break, and mav the horse's
llnrst not conmel iheni tn vtnu ' ' '
ipel
frisk, and Mis trees t(
.stop
jss, and PI is I
love to each other, I know H
)rook
many taverns." In a world wdiere Ood lets His 1
s leap, and His stars twinkle, and His fl
e intended men at times to laiudi and
ambs
lowers make
sinjr and .sport. The
iSS
thp: earth girdled.
wlidlf world is full of imisic if wc only had cars acute cuoui^li to hear it. Silence itself i
only uuisic asleep. Out ii])on the fashion that lets a man smile, but pronounces him vulj^a:
if he makes .threat deuioustratiou of hilarity. Out upon a style of Christianity that won!''
make a man's face the counter u])on which to measure reli<.,non by the yard. "All worl
and no play makes Jack a dull bov," is ,'s true as preachin,i;-, and more true than soun
preachiu^. " Better wear out than rust out," is a poor maxim. The\- are both sins. Von
have no more rii;lit to d(j the one than the other. Recreation is re-ereatiou. I5ut whil(
all this is .so, every thinkin,!:; man and woman will acknowledge that too nuich (le\(i-
tion to aunisement is ruinous. Many of the clerjjy of the last century lost their theology in
a fox cha.se. .Many a sjilendid business has had its l)rains kicked out by fast horses. Man\
a man has smoked up his prospects in ITavanas • f the best brand. There are battles in lif>
that cannot be fon<iht with si)ortsman's f>;un. There are thinj^s to be caug^ht that you can-
not draw up with a fishintr tackle. Even Christopher North, tlat maiLjnificcut Scotchmar.,
dropped a <,^reat deal of usefulness out of his sportiu,^- jacket. Throu<.,di excessive annisi-
ment many clergymen, farmers, lawyers, pliysiciaus, mechanics, artists have committed tin
bis,^ blunder of their lives. I t)ffer this as a principle : those anuisenieuts are harmless
which do not interfere with home dutit>s and enjoyments. Those arc ruinous which g'wt
one distaste for domestic pleasure and recreation.
When a man likes any ])lace on earth be; er than his own liome, look out! Yet how
many men seem to have no appreciation of what a .ijood home is. It is only a few years a^:<>
that the twain stood at the marria<j^c altar and promised fidelity till death did them ])ari.
Now, at miduit^ht, he is sta<fi;erin<r on his way to the home, and as the door oi)cus, I see im
the face inside the door the shadow of sorrows that are ])assed, and the shadow of sorrows
that are to come. Or, I see her jj^oiuii^ alon>^ the road at midui,q;ht to the jilace where he was
ruined, and openint;- the door and swinjj^ini^ out from under a faded shawl a shriveled arm,
cryiui^out in almost supernatural clo(iuence, "(iive him back to me, him of the noble brow ami
the jrreat heart. Give him back to mc ! " .Vnd the miserable wretches seated around thi
table of the restaurant, one of them will come forward, and with bloated hand wiping the
into.xicant from the li]), will say, " Put her out ! "' Then I ,scc her ti^oin^ out on the abutment
of the brid<Te, and lookiuji; off U]X): the river, <^lassy in the mooulijjht, and wonderiu;^ i!
somewhere under the i;la.ssy surfact of that river there is not a jilace of rest for a broken
lieart. Woe to the man that despoils liis home. Better that he had never been born. I offer
home as a preventive, as an inspiration, as a restraint. Floatiuo^ off from that, beware 1
Blunder the next : the formation of unwi.se domestic relation. And now I nuist
be very careful. It is so with both sexes. Some of the loveliest women have been
married to the meanest men. That is not poetry, that is prose. The queerest man in
the Bible was Xabnl, but he was the husband of beautiful Al)i<,^ail. We are prodigal
with our compassion when a noble woman is joined to a husband of besotted liabii^,
but in thoirsands of the homes of our country, belonginfj to men too stin.q;y to be
dissipated, you may find female excellencies which have no opportunity for development. It"
a man be cross and .t,mKl,<>;eful and nnobli<,nn,<r and censorious in his household, he is more 'if
a pest than if he were dead drunk, for then he could be manajjed. It is a sober fact whii !i
e\ery one has noticed that thousands of men of <^ood business capabilities lia\e beni
ent'rely defeated in life because their domestic relations were not of the risjht kind. 'I'liis
thon,t^ht has its most practical bearing; on the \ounj^ who yet have the world before tin m
and where to choose. There is probably no one in this house who has been unfortunate ii
the forminjj of the relation I hwe mentioned ; but if you should happen to meet with a:;y
"'^t i' ... A' fci
X.
V.
:e itscli' 1
iiii vulj^a!
hat won!''
"All worl
iian Minn
uis.
V:
r>nl wiiiK
ich (li.\(i
leol
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M
an\
ties in lifi
t yon cai;-
:otcliniar..
ve anm^i-
iiiitted tlu
hariuK-^
/liicli
"•ui
Yet 1
KiW
years aL;i>
licm ])an.
■;, I soc' (in
)t sorrow-
ere lie wa-
ami,
/eled
2 l)ro\van(l
round tlu
I'ipin*) tlu
abntnunt
ulerin<i it
r a
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l)rok
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111
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w I nin>i
lave 1)trn
•it iiian ill
rod
ed hal)il-,
[fry to lir
iiicnt. If
is iiion- 'it
wiiu ii
hicii
IMS
fact
lave
lid.
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irtniiati. n
t with :,::%■
igo
THH KARTII (ilRDLKD.
inanifd man in sncli an nnforUinato predicanunt as 1 liavc mentioned, tell liim I have no
advice tu ijive exec i>t to tell him to keep his courage nn, and whistle most ol' tlic time, and
pnt into practice what the old lady said. She said she had liad a great deal of tronble in her
time, hilt she had alwa\s been consoled by that heautilnl ])assa}4e(ir Scripture, the thirteenth
ver.^e of the fonrteenth chapter of the hook of \ic(nUinns; "tirin and hear it."
Socrates had remarkahle philosophy in hearing the ills of an unfortunate alliance.
Xanlippe, having scoliled him without any evident effect, threw ujion him a pail of water.
All he did wa.. to exclaim : "I thought that after so nnieli thundrr we would he apt lu
have some rain." It is hardly possible tint a business man shoidd be thriftless if he have
a ccmipauiciu alwavs ready to encourage anil assist him — ready to make sacrifices until his
affairs may allow more opportunity for luxuries. If during the day a man has been
harassed and disappointed, hard chased of notes and defrauded, and he find in his home
that evening a cheerful sympathy, he will go back next day to his place of business with
liis courage up, fearless of i)rotesls, and able, from ten to three o'clock, to look any bank
full in the face. During the financial panic of 1S57 there was many a man who went
through unabashed because while down in the business marts he knew that although all
around him they were thinking only of themselves, there was one .sympathetic heart
thinking of him all day long, and willing, if the worst should come, to go with him to an
humble home on an unfashionable street, without murmuring, on a sewing machine to
play, "The Song of the Shirt." Hundreds of fortunes that have been ascribed to the
industry of men bear upon them the mark of a wife's hand. Uergliam, the artist, was as
lazy as he was talented. His studio was over the room where his wife sat. Kvery few
minutes, all day long, to keep her husband from idleness, Mrs. Berghani would take a stick
and thump up against the ceiling, and her husband would answer by stamping on the
floor, the signal that he was wide awake and busy. Une-half of the industry, and
punctuality that yon witness every day in places of business is merely the result of Mrs,
Uergham's stick tliumping against the ceiling. But woe to the man who has an experience
anything like the afflicted jiarson, who said that he had during his life three wives: the
first was very rich, the second very handsome, and the third an outrageous temper : " So,"
says he, " I have had 'the world, the flesh and the devil.'" Want of domestic economy
has ruined many a fine business. I have known a delicate woman strong enough to carry
off her husband's store on her back and not half try. I have known men running the
gauntlet between angry creditors while the wife was declaring large and unprecedented
dividends among milliners' and confectioners' shops. I have known men, as the phrase
goes, "With their nose to the grindstone," and the wife most vigorously turning the crank.
Solomon says: "A good wife is from the Lord," but took it for granted that we might
easily guess where the other kind comes from. There is no excuse for a man's picking up
a rough flint like that and placing it so near his heart, when the world is so full of polished
jewels. And let me say, there never was a time since the world stood when there were so
many good and noble women as there are now. And I have come to estimate a man's
character somewhat by his appreciation of womanly character. If a man have a depresseil
idea cf womanly character he is a bad man, and there is no exception to the rule. Ihit
there have been men who at the marriage altar thought they were annexing somethiui,'
more valuable than Cuba, who have found out that after all they have got only an album,
a fashion plate and a medicine chest.
Many a man reeling under the blow of misfortune has been held up In' a wife's arm, :•
wife's prayer, a wife's decision, and has blessed (iod that one was sent from heaven thus to
THK WORLD AS SEEN TO-DAY.
191
stretiK^then him ; wliilc many a man in cun.rurtahlc circiimstances has luul Iiis h\v pcsUud
ont ot hun by a shnvv, wiw. URf him al the d,,,,,- at ni-ht, witii biscuit that tlie servant Itt
lali Ml the fire, an.l (lra,^uiiiK ont tlie children to wlu.n. she lia.i promised a fl-.j^-in- as s.„.n
as the "oi<l man " came iionie, to the scene of .lomestic leiieilv. And what a case'that w is
wiiere a husband and wife sal at the n,,p,,Mte end> of the lea table, and a bitter eontroversv
came tip between them, and
the wife picked up a tea cnp
and hurled it at her hnsbandN
iiead, and it j^ianced i)a>t and
broke all to pieces a beautiful
ni.'tto on the wall entitled
" (iod 1)less our happy home ! "
Tliere are thousands of women
who are the jov and the adorn-
ment of our American homes,
combininji^ with elei^ant tastes
in the art-^ and every accom-
plishment wliich onr best sem-
inaries and the lii;,diest style
of literature can bestow upon
them, an industr\- and practi-
cality which ahva_\s insure do-
mestic happiness and pros-
perity. Mark >-ou, I do not
say they will insure a larj^o
ninnl)er of dollars. A larjje
ntuuber of dollars are not ne-
cessary for happiness. I have
seen a house with thirty rooms
in it and they were the vesti-
bule of perdition, and I have
seen a home with two rooms in
it, and they were the ve.stibulc
of heaven. You cannot tell ])y
the size of a man's house the
size of his happiness. As
Alexander the Great with pride
sliowed the Persian princesses
garments made by his own
mother, so the women of whom
I iiave been speaking can show
you the triumphs of their
adr.Mt womanly fingers. They are as expert in the kitchen as tliev arc graceful 1 the
parlor, if need be, they go there. And let me say that that is my idea of a lad>-, one who
will accommodate herself to any circumstances in which she mav be placed. If the
jvhccl of fortune turn in the right direction, then she will be prepared for that position
It tlie wheel of fortune turn in the wrong direction (as it is almost sure to do at least
m
ji-.Noi.AN CAvr-;s, india.
ly^ Tin- KAKTII (;IR1)LHD.
oiicf ill (.Acrv man's lilV) iIkii slic is ju>.t as liappv, and tlum^ii ail tin.' Iiircd 1k1|) >1u)1i!i|
llial iiiurniii;; iiial-:i.' a strit;L' fur liij,'licr wa^^cs, tiicy will iiavc a j^ood dinner, aiijlinu
TIkv know wilhoiit askiu),' tlic lioiisc-kt-'epir llic diirinnii.' iRtwccn a waslilul) and a filter.
Tlicy never sew on to a coal * li(|noriee diop lor ,i i)laek hnltoii. Tliey never mistake i
bread i ly for a cradle, Tlicy never administer Kelliiijj;er's horse liniment for the l)al)\
croiip. Their accoinplislinieiits are not like lioiieyMickles at your door, hniij^ on to a lij^lu
frame easily swayed in the wind, l)nt like unto the lloweis planted in the solid earth whiili
have rock under theui. These are the women who make liapi)y homes and compel .
hushaud into thriftiiiess. Hoardiiij,^ schools are necessities of socic ty. In \er> small villaj^es
and in re;4;ions entirely rural it is sometimes impossible to afford seminaries for the lii},dier
brinchos of learnin,^. Hence, in our lari^er places we iinist lia\e these institutions, aiu!
i1k\' are turninj; out upon the world lens of thousands of youni; women spKiididly (jualitied
for their positions. Hut there are, I am sorr\ to say, exceptional seminaries lor yonir^
ladles which, instead of sendiii,:^- their students back to their ho les with j^ood sense as well
as diplomas, despatch them with mauiiers and behavior far from civilized. With the
promptness of a police olHcer they arrai,i,ni their old-fashioned ^rraudfather for murdermi,'
the Kiii<4"s luij^lish. ,Stajj^,t;erin.!j; down late to break fist they e.\cu>e themselves in I'reiuli
])hrase. The yonni,^ men who were her frieiuls when she left the farm house for the cil\
school, come to ;4reel her home attain, and shock her with a hard hand that has lieeii on the
plouj^h handle, or with a broad lMi.i^li>li which does not ])roperly sound the /• or iiiiuce the .s.
" Tliiii,i;s .irt' sci awkwanl, folks so iiiipcpliU',
'i'lu'v'ri' I'liHimllv iiaiiud lioiii iiicirii 'ull iiij^ht."
Once she could run at Ikt father's heel in the cool furrow on the summer day, or witli
bronzed cheek chase throuj^li the meadows t^atlierinj^- the wild flowers which fell at the
stroke of the harvesters, while the stroiij.^- men with their sleeves rolled up looked down at
her not kuowinjr which most to admire, the daisies in her hair or the roses in liP*- cheeks,
and sayinir : " I'.less me! Isn't that Ruth <4leanin<4 after the rea])ers?" Coiuini,' home
with health .^oiie, her father ])aid the tuition bill, but .Madame Nature .sent in an account
sonietliinj; like this :
Miss ()])lielia .\ii.i;eliiia to Madame Xature, Dr.
To one years' nej^lect of exercise 15 chills.
To twenty nights' of late retiring 75 twitches of the nerves.
To .several mouths' of improper diet \ lifetime of dy.s'vepsia.
Added up makiu.ir in all an exhausted s\stem, chronic neuralgia and a couple of fits.
Call in Dr. l'ill>bur\- and uncork the cainplior bottle; but it is too late. What .ui
adornment such an one will be to the house of some younj,^ uierchaut, or lawyer, or
mechanic, or farmer. That man will be a drudt^e while he lives, and he will be a drudge
when he dies.
Ulunder the next : .Xttemptiufif life without a spirit of enthusiasm and euterprisi,-.
Over caution on one side, and reckless s])eculation on the other side must be avoided ; but
a dttermined and enthusiastic pro.t^ress must always characterize the man of thrift. I
think there is no such man in all the world as he who is descended from a New Kn},daii<l
Yankee on the one side, and a New York Dutchman on the other. That is royal bloml,
and will almost invarialiiy ^-ivc a man prosperity, the Yankee in his nature sayiuj^j : "Co
ahead," and the Dutch, in his blood, sayiiu,^ : " I>e prudent while you do go ahead." Tliv
£4
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194
THK EARTH GIRDLKD.
main characteristics of the Yankee are invention and enterprise. The main characteristic-.
of tlie Dntclnnan are prudence and firnniess, for when he says " Yaw," he means " Yaw,'
and you no chant^e him. It is .sometimes .said tliat Americans are short-lived, and the;,
run themselves to pieces. We den\- this. An American lives a s^'^t deal in a little
while — twenty-four hours in ten minutes.
In the Revolutionary war American enterprise was discovered by somebody wlui,
describing the capture of Lord Cornwallis, put in his mouth these words :
" I llu)ii.t,'lit five tliousanil itK-n or less
Tlirough all llu'se Status luiglit safely pa.ss,
Mv emir now I see loo late,
Here I'm eonfnied within this .Stale.
Ves, in this little spot of ).^roui!(l,
Kiiclosed by Yankees all around,
In luirope ne'er lei il be known,
Nor publish il in .\skelon,
Lest the uncirculnei^ed rejoice,
And di.stiint nations join their voice.
What would my friends in Hritain say,
I wrote them I had gained the day.
Some thinjis now strike me with surprise,
I'irsl, I believe the Tory lies.
What also brought me to this plight
I thought the Vr'iikees would not light.
Mv error now I see loo late,
Here I'm conlined within this Stale.
Yes, in this little spot of ground.
Enclosed by Yankees .ill around.
Where I'm so erampeil and hemmed about,
The devil himself could not gel out "
From that time .\merican enterprise has continued developing, sometimes toward the
right and sometimes toward the wrong. :Men walk faster, think faster, drive faster, lie fasli r,
and swear faster. Xew sciences have sprung up and carried off the hearts of the people.
Phrenologv, a science which I believe will yet be developed to a thorough consistency, in its
incomplete stage puts its hand on yonr head, as a musician on a piano, and plays out the
entire tune of your character, whether it be a grand march or a jig ; .sometimes by mi.stake
announcing that there are in the head benevolence, music, and sublimity, when then is
about tiie .same amount of intellect under the hair of the subject's head as in an ordinarv
hair trunk ; sometimes forgeting that wickedness and crime are chargeable, not .so much lo
bumps on the head as to bumps on the heart. Mesmeri.sm, an old science, has been revi\ ui
in our day. This system was .started from the fact that in ancient times the devotees of
Esculapins were put to sleep in his temple, a mesmeric feat sometimes performed on modem
worshipers. Incurable di.seases are said to slink away before the dawn of this .science like
gho.sts at cock-crowhig, and a man under its influence may have a tooth extracted or liis
head amputated witliout discovering the important fact until he comes to his senses. The
operator will compel a sick person in clairvoyant state to tell whether his own liver or lieaii is
diseased, when if h'- .subject were awake he would not be wise enough to know a heart In in
a liver. If yon have had property .stolen, on the payment of o:ie dollar— mind that— ihev
will tell yon where it is, and who stole it, and even if they do not make the matter perfectly
plain, they have bettered it ; it does not all remain a mystery ; \ou know where the dollar went.
There are aged men and woneii here who have lived through marvelous changes. Tlie
world is a verv different place from what it was when >ou were boys and girls. The worldls.
THE WORLD AS SKKX TO-DAY.
195
enterprise has accoinplislied wonders in \oiif -i.... 'n„. 1 ,- 1 1 • 1 , . , .
nient it fnrnislied tlie whole
laniily of boys with a Sun-
(la>- wardrobe. Grandfather
on rainy days shelled corn
or broke flax in the barn,
and in the cvenin^r with
.urandniother went ronnd to
visit a nei|,dil)or where the
men sit smoking their pipes
l)y the jambs of the broad
fire-place, telling of a fox
chase, or heats at mowing
without or.ce getting bushed,
and gazing upon the flames
as they sissed and simmered
around the great back log,
and leaped up through the
light wood to lick off the
moss, and shrugging their
shoulders satisfactorily as
thewild night wind screamed
round the gable, and clat-
tered the shutters, and
clicked the icicles from the
eaves, and Tom brought in
a l)lue-edged dish of great
" I'all pippins," and " Dair-
claushes" and " Henry
Sweets," and "Granny-
winkles," and the nuts all
lost their hearts sooner than
il the squirrels were there,
and the grandmothers talk-
ing and knitting, talkii"^
and knitting, until John in
tow pants, or Mary in linscy- ^ imunckss ok iiurmah in corRT costumk.
^vuo]sey, by shaking the old lady's arm for just one more " (kannvwinkle," makes her most
pn.vokmgly drop a stitch, and forthwith the youngsters are dispatched to be<I bv the stir
ii.Ulit that drips through the thatched garret chinks.
W
here is
Home, Sweet
now
onie
the old-fashioned fire-place where the andiron?
while the hook and trammels beat time? (
in a thrilling duet
sany
ireat solemn stoves
196
THE EARTH GIRDLED.
have taken tlic-ir place, wliere dim fires, like pale ghosts, look out of the isinglass, and from
which comes the gassv breath of coal, instead of the breath of mountain oak and sassafras.
( )ne icicle frozen to each chair and sofa is called a sociable, and the milk of human kual-
ness is congealed into society— that modern freezer warranted to do it in five nnnutes. Vou
have also witnessed a change in matters of religion. I think there is more religion now in
ihe world than there ever was, but people souietimes have a queer way of showing it. For
instance, in .the uiatter of church music. The musical octave was once an eight-rung ladder,
on which our old fathers could climb up to heaven from their church pew. Now, the
minstrels are robbed everv Sundav. The pious old tunes which our fathers sang have go.u-
with them to glorv. This old psalm on brotherly love was once magnificently chanted :
'• It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even
Aaron's beard, that went down to the skirts of I'is garment." Now, it is sung to a fugue
tune, and the different voices come in as follows :
'■ TriR- lovL- is like th.i' -irecious oil,
Tlial ran down liis liL'iinl ami o'er his head,
His head ran down his beard.
And o'er his head his beard ran down.
His down, his down, its inoisUire shed.
Kan down his beard, ran down his shed.
Ran down, ran down, ran down, ran down.
Ran down, ran down, ran down, ran down.
Hissherl ran down his beard,
.\nd o'er his shed his beard r.m down.
Ran down, ran down, ran down, ran down."
The plain English of which I take to be that Aaron, the prie.st, had an awful time with
his whiskers. Ou'l)ne occasion after this fugtie was executed, a spectator expressed the fear
that after Aaron the priest had gone through such a process as that he could uot have had
a hair left. That was advancement in the wrong direction. But, oh, what progress in tJK
'ri"ht direction There goes the old stage-coach hung on leather suspenders. vSwing and
bo^uucc. Swing and bounce. Old grey balky, and sorrel lame. Wheel fast in the rut,
- All tooether, vo heave !" On the morning air you heard the stroke of the rcajier's rifle on
the scythe <rettiug readv to fight its way through the swaths of thick -, t meadow grass.
Now we do'^nearlv all these things bv machinery. A man went all the way from N\ w
York to Buffalo on an express train, and went so rapidly that he said in all the di.stance he
saw but two objects. Two haystacks, and the>- were going the other wa>-. The small par-
ticles of iron are taken f; m tlieir bed and melted into liquid, and run out into bars, and
spread into sheets, and turned into screws, and the boiler begins to groan, and the valves to
open and the shafts to flv, and the steamboat going, " Tschoo ! Tschoo ! Tschoo !" sluiuts
across the Atlantic, making it a ferrv, and all the world one neighborhood. In olden tiiiirs
they put out a fire 1)v buckets of water, or rather did not put it out. Now, m nearly ail
our cities we put out a fire bv steam. But where they haven't come to this, there still has
been great improvement. Hark ! There is a cry in the street :" Fire ! Fire!" The tire-
men are coming, and thev front the building, and they hoist the ladders, and they run up
with the hose, and the orders are given, and the engines begin to work, and beat down the
flames that smote the heavens. And the hook and ladder company with long arms of wood
and fingers of iron begin to feel on the top of the hot wall and begin to puil. She moves .
She rocks ' Stand from under ! She falls ! Hat as the walls of Jericho at the blast of tnc
ram's horns, and the excited populous clap their hands, and wave their caps, shouliiis
" Hurrah, hurrah !"
and fidiii
sassafras,
nan kiiid-
ites. Von
an now in
^r it. For
nj^ ladder.
Now, lliL-
have oQiK-
• chanted :
;ard, c\-en
to a h\<z\K-
time witli
ed the fear
t liave liad
Tess in the
S\vin(>- ;uid
in tlie rut,
cr's rifle du
dow S'''^"^-
from Xi \v
distance !ie
? small ])ar-
} bars, and
le valves to
30 !" shoots
alden tiuKS
I nearly ail
re still lias
The Ihx-
ley nm up
it down tile
ins of woiid
She moves !
blast of the
s, sliontius
THE WORLD AS SEEN TO-DAY. .gy
Now, in an aj?e like this, what will become of a man if i„ cverN' nerve a,ul nmscle and
bone he does not have the spirit of enthusiasm and enterprise? Whv, he will Iro f 1 ■
a.K be forgotten, as he ou.ht to be. He who cannot sivim in this cr,rrent Jill'd
^onnj, man, nmke np your mind what yon on^ht to be, and then start out. And 1 e , J
look, the woild see.n.s brightening. Open the map of the world, close vonr eves 'swin-r
your finger oyer the map of the world, let your finger drop acci<le,itallv. and I am al o^t
odd cT °' °" ' P"' °' ''" ""^'' ''''' '' brightening. You open the map of the
^\olld, close your eyes, swing your finger over
the map, it drops accidentally. Spain ! Coming
to a better form of government. What is that
light breaking over the top of the I'vrenees ?
" The morning conieth ! " You open 'the map
of the world again, clo.se your eyes, and swing
your finger over the map. It drops accidentallv.
Italy ! The truth going on from conquest to
conquest. Wiiat is that light breaking over
the top of the Al-s ? " The morning cometh ! "
You open the map of the world again, you close
your eyes, and swing your finger o\er the map,
and your finger drops , accidentally. India!
Juggernauts of cruelty broken to pieces by the
chariot of the C.ospel. What is that light break-
ing over the tops of ^-nalaya? "The morn-
ing cometh ! " The aimyof Civilization and
Christianity is made up of two wing.s, the
Knglish wing and the American wing. The
American wing of the army of Civilization and
Cliristianity will march across this continent.
On. over the Rocky Mountains, on over the
Sierra Nevada, on to the beach of tlie Pacific,
and then right through, dry shod, to the Asiatic
shore. And on across Asia, and on, and on,
until it comes to the Holy Land and halts.'
The English wing of the army of Civilization
and Christianity will move across Europe, on
■nd on. until it comes to the Holy Land and
halts. And when these two wings of the army '^'^^'" J^^'"- "^'^ nRAcoMAx.
of Civilization and Christianit; shall confront each, other, having encircled the world,
Kiewil go up such a shout as the world heard never: " Hallelujah, for the Lord (lod
( )inmpotent reigneth ! " ^^oiu v.uu
Pecple who liave not seen the tides rise at the beach do not understand them. Some
man who has never before -.-isited the seashore comes down as the tide is risiti<r The wue
comes to a certain point and then retreats, and he .says : " The tide is going o'^tt, the sea is
Koing down." No, the tick is rising, for the next wave cntnes to a higher poin; and then
recoils. He .says : » Certamly, the tide is going out, and the sea is going down." No, the
t.de IS rising, for the next wave comes to a higher point and then recoils, and to a higher
198
THE EARTH GIRDLED.
and hi-l,er and hi-her point until it is full tide. So, with the advance of civihzation and
Christianitv in tlic workl. In one decade the .vave conies to a certain point and then
recoils for ten or fifteen vears, and people say the world is -ettinK worse and the Udes ol
civilization and Christianitv are Roin- down. Xo, the tide is rising, tor the next tune the
wave reaches to a still hi-her point and recoils, and to a still hi-her point and recoils, and
to a hioher and a higher and a higher point until it shall be full tide, and the " Earth sha.l
be fulfof the knowledge of Ciod as the waters fill the sea." At sr.ch a time yon start out.
There is some especial w-rk for yon to do.
I was verv much thrilled, as I suppose you were, with the stor>- of the old engineer on
his locomotive crossing the Western prairie day after day and month after month. A littk-
child would come out in front of her father's cabin and wave to the old engineer and hv
would wave back again. It became one of the joys of the old engineer's life, this littk-
child c-ning out and waving to him and he waving back. But one da> the train was
belated and night came on, and by the flash of the head-light of the locomotive the old
engineer saw that child on the track. She knew not her peril. She ha<l come out to look
for the old engineer. When the engineer saw the child on the track a great horror froze h.>
soul and he reversed the engine and leaned over on the cow-catcher, and though the tram
was 'slowing up, -nd slowing up, it seemed to the old engineer as if it were gaining in
velocitv But, standing there on the cow-catcher, lie waited for his opportunity, and with
almostsupernatural clutch he seized her and fell back upon the cow-catcher. The tram
halted the passengers came around to see what was the matter, and there lay the oM
en-ineer on the cow-catcher, fainted dead away, the little child in his arms all unhurt. He-
saved her. Grand thing, vou sa^•, for the old engineer to do. ^'-s, just as grand a thing lor
vou to do There are long trains of disaster coming on toward ^.t soul. Yonder are long
irains of disaster coining on toward another soul. Yon go out i, -he .strength of the Eternal
God and with supernatural clutch save some one, some man. st.iiie woman, some child.
You can do it.
CHAPTER XIX.
GATE OF DEPARTURE.
'S ;ve entered Australia at the Sappliire Oate of S>cl„ey, we are abot:t to leave
throu-h the -ohleii jrate ot a l)ri-ht inoniiuj.- in Adelaide.
• /^f "" ^^!T'\ "^ "'-■ l'''^^''^'-^^''"^-^ '^"'1 lectiirin^r tour of Australia am I. It
tnight be asked wh> should oue in my profession not ahvavs preach and never
lecture. Answer-A journey arotnul the world properl>- aeeon;pa,ned is a .orv ex oens k"
journey, and lectured to n,eet that expense. Beside tluat, the building of three in'nnense
churches ,n Amenea all of them destroyed by fire, cost much perso^ual sacrifice. T
.n r '" r '•"""' ''"" ''"'''"-^ ""^ ""'■' y'^'^ l--^'>-^^ P-'^ticalh- withottt
salar>, and an evangehstic tour m Europe two years ago which cost UKA^ersonaliv, $5000
wd suggest to n:ost people the us^ which might be made of the n,onevs recciveclS
ect,nng. But . have preached in all the great cit! -^- of New Zealand and Aust alii
Other clergytnen tra^•ehng generall>- have their way paid by benevolent persons or soc Si '
I pay mv own expenses. 1 -. ui sucicLie.s,
If my preaching services in Australia and New Zealand are e^•er described others for
the most part, wdl describe then. My Sabbath at Melbourne was a tvj^'of ^ I't
Sbbaths. Passmg along the great Town Hall, the largest auditoriun/ of the citv^
ah.iough the preaching service was not to begin until three o'clock in the afternoon-at'ten
..clock m the monung, I saw the audience gathering, ladies spreading their shawls on the
.tone steps to sU there until the doors were opened. When I approached the Town Hall
a h le before three o'clock, I could make no progress through the streets except bv the ad
o. the police and It wrs a struggle every .step of the way. Finding it impJssibie to It
any urther than the out . steps, I preached a short sermon there. By a rei'nforcement we
naily got to the door and entered. The Moderator of the (General A.ssemblv who wasTo
have presided did not get m at all. The service went on until nearlv the close, when the
avor of the city came upon the platform to utter some words of thanks, and those who
<1 harge of the doors opened them to let the people out, but the tide from without rushed
Thi n„i rr ^^""f.''^-^^-^ tf ^" Pl'-^- ''^-^^ "Ot the organist begun to plav the Doxologv.
rins quieted everything. The mayor, however, had promised that I would preach again
n.,„ the balcony, and so about a half hour afterward I spoke to the people .sUU crowding
^t rrL;^^" -n"' "! ^''''''''' after Sabbath, and I hope some good was done^
out the ixreat Puture will revea!.
As the Antipodean section of my journey is about to close, I am disn^sed to recall the
ta.es of some of the more pronounced and emineni people whom I hav,-' , .et. Anion- the
strong personalities of these Australian experiences is Sir Henrv Xornian, now Gover.^r of
UK^i^land, but^ns name is associated with the horrors of I.ucknow, into wh.- he rode
Havelock, Outram and Peel, for the rescue of the women and children imprisoned and
.tn g for massac:e^ I said to him, '• Sir Henry, you are the first ,erson I have seen who
^ .>^ at Lucknow. Plea.se tell us about it." He pointed out to me on a picture in his
1' -viug-room the meeting of tlie generals in India, forgetting to point liim.self out, tintil I
wi',!, ll f •, ^^"''', '; • ''^^^"^:'-''^^-'"^^ ^^■''^■^ ^•""•'^elf. As a few days after he sat before me,
^^uh his family and his suite in a great assemblage, I was almost diverted from what I was
(199)
200 THE HARTII GIRDLED.
savi.K^ tc. 111. i.Kn...rv .f tla- sceiR. through which that Scottish h-m had pa.secl But
insteiTd of ridin- in fiill jrallop. wit', torn epaulet and iaeo c.vom! ^vilh .owder a.ul ..lood,
now he sits with countenance la.liant with peace and Christian kmdr.cs -. No wonder he vris
recentlv ai-pointcd hv the Ivu-lish Government as XMcerov of Indir., at a sclnrv of $l2:;,0uo
a vear-the hi-hest' office in the gift of the Oueen-iu-iead of :he S.1>o,h, he is -ynv
receivin.^ lUit after acceptin- the ai-pointnient and hcin- all packed up for india--as His
Lidvship told us— his boxes at the <l.>.,r— he witlidrew Ins acceptance on conditions ,.t
health \o man can i>ass throu-h that '.vhich he lias passed thi.m-h without having it ten
nmn his phvsical eiidnrance. Great is tiie rejoiciuo all through Austn^ia that he remains
in the Governor's chair. There is no more popular Governor in t!l these colonies (haii the
jreniai, t;dented, heroic, iiiuiior! .1 and Chris^an, Sir lle.ny \ormau. ^
\,.ion..- th.osr whM liave pMSscd a lifetime in Australia, th. most ina.kLCi character, the
most warnih adnr.. ! hv mauN and the most l)itterly hated by some, - Sir^Heurv Parke^.
Coming to Australia a poor baker's boy, he attt r-
ward learned the printer's trade and soon pub-
lished a newspaper of his own, setting up his own
tyjK- and carrying i iic forms to the press on his
own shoulder. He K.se in influence and power
until he could and did show me on the walls ol
his house, jvlctures o!" 'he men wdio had made up
the five different goveiuments of his fashionin-.
What Bismarck has been to Germany, and Glad-
stone to England, and Sir George Grey to New-
Zealand, Sir Henry Parkes has been to New
vSouth Wales. Though eiglit\-two years of age.
he led us briskly up and down stairs in his own
house on the outskirts of Sydney, showing us as
luaiiv objects of interest as I ever saw in the same
length of time. He nurollcd to ns from his
autograph books, full, heartv and sympathetic
letters from the Prince of Wales, and Thomas
Carlvle, and Tcuny.son, and Cobdeii, and John
Bright, and John Stuart Mills, and President
Gra~iit, and Cyrus W. Field, and eminent men in
all departments and all nations. Notwithstaiuliug he is a little bent with age, and .snow on
his hnig beard would not make it aiu' whiter, he h.oks as though he had y irs of w.rk
and command before him. He has a vivid remembrance of the honors bestowed upon l.nu
in New York bv the cmniercial and literarv magnates of America, Hon. W hitelaw K.M
presidin.^ and the national escort afforde.l him across (mr continent from ocean to ocean.
He is out of office now, but his enemies are trembling every tie : e takes his pen in lia.i.l.
or walks up the steps of the Government buihling. He is the k i. - ' man nothing can k. .v
down except his own .sepul.li. - Rugged, bluff, positive, s'-o ■ . e, defiant, volcanic, reckU >s
of wdiat others sav or do. : ^ 1 he been a soldier, he w • M --se belonged to the cavahv
and rode ahead o( some "light brigade." Had he been ^ saihir, he would have beer, a
Captain Cook and found some other Australia., had there I e-.; mother to find. His eye, ::.s
shi^gv brow, his lion-like face, his wit, two-edged, his railler, 1 i^ coiifi.leiice in hiinsell to
do allthat ought to be done, is something that impresses yon . the time, and keeps yoii
SIR IIENKV VAKKI'.S AS HI- MIW Al'Pi; \KS.
■\\
■^ed. Hut
Icr li<- ."ris
le is n.!\v
a — as Hi--
ditiuiis ct
in^r it tc-ii
e rcuiaiM--
'.■ ■•han till.-
ractcT, tliL-
r>- Parkt-.
i-, li(j aftrr-
soon piil)-
ip Ins own
ress on his
iiul powtr
e walls (if
1 made u])
'ashio^iIl;^^
and (ilad-
?\' to Ww
1 to Xiw
ai's of ai^i',
in his own
\vin,s;' us as
n the same
; from his
v-mpathetic
id Thomas
and John
. President
ent men in
id snow I in
irs of wcrk
1 upon him
.telaw Keid
;i to oeean.
en in har.d,
i_^' can k( I P
lie, reckUss
the eavalrv
ave been a
His eye, I'is
I himsell ii>
keeps y«m
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202
THK KARTH OIRDIJvD.
iiii]iivsst.'(l whciK'vcr yon tliink of liiiii. IK- .L;i\i^ liini>eir up Id lii> ,ma-^l>, until one iVi'l-
1k' lias no li^lil lo so niucli of tlic linn.' ol" a l)ii>y and absoiijcd man. llis ciRinics liav.
<.'\lin,nuisln.'(l him tinu-s witlioul nnnil)i.r, and still Ik- j^oes on, and lii> opinion on (.'vcrytliin;^
is nioiv son,i;lit after than llu' opinion of an\ man in An>tr,dia, wlRtlar that opinion Ik
liked or reprehended. IIi> name will .^o dow n in liistorx and he assoeiated with all the j.;re.i;
mo\enients eonneeled with the welfare of these eolonii . At a haiuinet reeently },nven him
on the ei,L;lU\-seeond anniversary of his hirthdae, he uttered this beautiful sentiment ahoni
hi-' remaiuinn davs : "Two ihinj^s I know, lli^l thai the road is short, and next that it lead-
to unbroken rest."
And now, as I am about to depart, I meet with the two men most honored in this eolon\
of .South Australia. The one is Chief jusiiee Way, the Lieutenant (loxernor. lie is tin
most popular man in all the colonies, and is widely known in America, which he visited in
1S92, as a delegate to the s^real Methodist Council at \Vashin<,4on. Me presided willi
i^race at mv first meeting- in Adelaide, and at his house lie liad assembled to 'meet me i
j^n-ouj) of .gentlemen, clerical and la\-, affable and talented. His lion>e is in the midst of .1
<.,rarden to which iiothin,i; could be added in wealth of flowers and rare trees, and it has in
the rear a fernery with rocks iii<,reniously scarped ; and a very 'Minne-ha-ha of fallin^t^f water-,
and an ornitholoj^ical collection with an infmitN' of cliirji and carol, and chatter and soul;.
15nt after we had heard his birds sin<,f and breathed the fra<rrance of hi.s garden, and looked
at the pictures, and walked tlirou}r]i his palace of a home, we bethou.^ht ourselves that
after all the ,<,rrandest attraction of the ])lace is himself. He has achieved his own fortune.
The .son of a iirimitive Methodist minister, he had iiothin,s4- to start with but the <;(ic 1
example and instruction of a consecrated luireiitaj^e; l)Ut he went ri.t^ht on and up in the
le<,nd iMdfession to the top until there is nothing hi,!4lier for him to win in these colonies.
On the side of all that is elevatinj^ and j^ood he is the pride and boast of all who know
him. One such man in a nation is a conscious or unconscious liftin,L,r of the wdiole nation.
If South Australia .should by its own .suffra,!^e, or 1)y the consent of lui.^land, become an
independent nation, he would be its first president. If by federation of all the colonies
there should be a union of all in one, he would 1)e the first president of that. Lon<,^ li\e
Chief Justice Way, and ma\- the world and the church have many more just like him I
Another vivid jiersonage I met at this departin,^- f^ate of the sea was the Ivarl nf
Kintore, Oovernor of South Australia. His invitation, callin,^; me to the I^xecutive
mansion, did not remain lon<:^ unanswered. One cannot help beint; impressed with
his six feet three inches in liei,<,dit, strai.nht as a Parthenon column, and with 1)rawn of
arm and blush of health resultant from fondness for outdoor sports, for the hounds love to
follow him, and the .steeplechase is apt to find him in stirrups or at the ,q;oal, where tlu
lathered horses come in to be blanketed. Amonj,' my first questions when I <;ot into the
(iovernor's mansion, was, "Have you a picture of your father?" The (iovcrnor, without
risin,!,'- from wdiere he sat, reached for a plioto(;;rapli and said, " That is father." vSure enon.i;!:.
just as I saw the late Karl of Kintore in 1879 when he presided at three of my meelin.i^s in
Kn.t,dand ; one in a church, one at a i)hilanthropic institution, and the other at lv\et( i
Hall, on that memorable da\- when the body of the Prince Imperial of Fiance was beiii.L^
taken tliron(,di London, on its way from Portsmouth, where it had arrived by ship the da\
before, to Chiselhnrst for burial beside his father, the Kmi)eror Napoleon. As on that
clay the Karl of Kintore was introducing me to the people, in that historical auditorimn,
Exeter Hall, the niinute-^nnsbe,i,fan to throb for the dead Prince, and the Karl impre.ssivel;.
remarked : " We are a.ssembled to-day to hear a lecture 011 ' Pright and Happy Home--,'
i
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204 THE EARTH GH<I)LED.
but llial iniiiuU--un ivuiiiv' i' l)ii,i;lU aiul liappy hoiiu- now (K-M.laU'. On:
syiiipatliics aiv slivml fr.i iiiaL N'i..i; I'liiuc NapoKoii, vvli.. dk'<\ in llu' service of t'
Itritish ICiiipirc. (icxl comfort liis iHokcn-licarlcd niollicr, tlic c.\-I' uiprcss." Voii -. . .
tin.' present Ivirl of Kinlore, now (lovenior of this colouv, descends not from one wlio In, i
nolliin<r except the accident of birth, but from one ol" the noblest men Scotland evM
produced. After parliu- from the late l-arl un the streets of London in iSj.^on a Monda
murnin! le o'clock, just after niidni.i-hl, h.
haviuj; taken me tlvit ni-ht thronoh the dark. ^•
l)artMif London ti) show me the midui.qht charitus
ol which he was a jjatron, 1 said to my wife at the
hotel, "Yon will never sec Lord Kintore ai^aiii,
he is loo s^^ood for this world. He will soon l.c
taken." That was a vSejiti'mber ni,>,dil, and in ilk'
followin- July he was lifted to the bri.<,rht woiM
into which he had heli)ed so many by iiis bem li-
cence and example. He was one of the deaie>l
friends I ever had, and, except my own fatlier, tlie
best man I ever knew. His words at midnight in
the - trects of Loudon were, "When yon ,Li;el to
America send me a stick (mc . nj^ a cane) and a
it be of .\mericau wood, and I will .send you a stii I:
from m\ <;rouii<ls in Scotland." After my arri\al
in Hrooklv n I received a shepherd's crcul cut frii'.n
!^ the luirl's estate, 1)Ut before the cane I Ijonj^dil for
" him had arrived in Scotland the <j;ood Karl had
irone to his rest. What a man he was ! On week-
days servinj,^ his country in the House of Lords,
and a Sundays, tliouj,di not a cler,t,n-nian, preaching
in churches, not onh the Presbyterian, iIk'
denomination to which be Ijclonj^cd, 1 -it in the e-
tablished churches. I heard a rector of the Clniuli
of Knyland chide him for not cominij; to speak in
his cathedral the Sabl)ath before. What a
strati<^e sensation ' expeiiencea when I re-
> Ned from the <i^ood Knri a message, months
af'er his death, not by spiritualistic coiuev-
ce, but throng' an American clcrj^nnKiii,
io was in Scotland when tlie Karl gave him
tlK- message and did not return to America
until some time aiurward. It will be e; iv
understood why I should be interested in the
present Ivarl of Kintore, and why he received me with so much cordiality at his Su'.lh
Australian gubernatorial residence. The present Karl, whom I accompanied to
cathedral on Sabbath night, and with whom I afterward dined, is as stout an Kngli.Mi
churchman as his i.ither was a stout r-rcsb> tcrian ; but, as Aichbi.sliop Leighton, ''le
AiKdican prelate, and John Knox, the reformer, are probably spending the Sabbath together
ijri'l.RSTITIONS Ol.- THi: inXDOOS— .VMn.RTS takkn
I'ROM THE HOnV Ol- TIl'l'OO S.^HIIl.
Pl
in heaven, it ought not to startle us that the presen
t Karl of Kintore is a devout worsli'iier
THH WORLD AS SlvIvX TO-DAV.
20:
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V(Jii -' ' ,
K- Wllo 11. . 1
itlailil I \ ' :
1 a Miiin!,!,
i(llli,!i^lU, i.r
llu' (larki^l
lit chaiitiis
wilV at till-
itoR' ai^aiii,
■ill soon lie
, and in tin.-
ri.s;lit WdiM
• his bi-n I li-
the (k-air^i
1 father, the
nidnij^ht in
you ;j;cl to
anc) and ^ :
, yon a stii
r my arrival
il; cut Irdiii
I bouj^ht for
)d Ivirl had
: (Jn wiek-
ie of Lords,
n, preacliiiii;
lyterian, the
•it in the e>-
f the Chureh
to speak in
re. What a
when I re-
vijje, nioiitlis
istic con\ey-
1 clerjj^ynian,
arl save him
to America
i-ill be ea-dy
rested in the
It his ,S(r;dl
mied U) t
an Eni;li>"
,eij?hto!i, ''li'
)ath together
nit worsh'jwr
i.iider tile forms and ceremonies at wliieh Jeannie (".eddies liuiUd the fo(,l-st..ol when they
were read in her hearing;.
And now, I tnrn my face toward the sea. Indeed the steamshii) Ma.ssilia, of the
" I'eninsidar and Oriental Line," is now pantiiij; in theo])en road-te,id of Adilaide, waitinj,'
tor i)assen}4ers. I-or 'wo months I liave had an nnmin-led deli.yhl Aitli tlii' .indienees of
New Zealand ,md Australia. I have waded ihron-h kindm ^s, ehin deep. If onedialf the
"Cod ble.ss vous" are answered, I will he the happiest man on earth. I',\er\ !ii,L;ht, e\etp'
when lravelin,i,^ I spoke from an hour and a half to two hours, and <;enerall\ .iddressed the
liep^x of the dilTerent eities .Mondav mornin.i;s. I ha\e been enconra,ne(l, solemnized, helped,
• iiid rejoiced more th.in I can tell. May the richest blessin-s of Cod abide on all these
colonies, whether they come into <,M-an(l confederation as many e.\pect, or stand alone, each
one fulfdliu-.j its nii.ssion. I hear the clauo of the ojienino doors of prosperitv such as the
Mio.st san-^uiiie political prophets have never yet foretold. With a heart full of oratitndi to
these pco[>le who are seeiuL-^ uie off, and a prayer to Him who walks the sea, ancl holds the
wind in his fist, I step abo,cid the ocean steamer. A lon>;, last, affectionate, and prayerful
jjood-bvc to Australia.
eoM.M.\.\ni.;K-iN-cini:i' or- timc Hrioinsic \rm\- i.v cockt hkkss.
ciiAi''i"i':k XX.
THE ISLE OF PALMS.
OIIIv lu'lian ( )cc.tii spa-ad out liuili palms of its luuuls to pass us ovt-r from Austral, i
to Ci> Ion. I'or till' first two or tlirci' days it jolted us up riud down like- a rou/li
nurse, to hint what it could do if il liked. Htit soou it became a (piiet swin
that pttt u.s under everlastinj; ohlii^ation, our slii]) runninj; a new furrow across ,i
new field blue as iolets, that furrow soon to disappear as did all the other furrows of tlu'
deep. This international chariot uuives alou.i^ the streets of .sapphire, hut leaves no rut, ami
the horses of steani-jiower trample the ro\al ]ia\ement, lea\ iuj; no sIlju of hoof durinj^r the K)ns^
voya<,a' of two weeks. We put out under the direcliun of a little fniLivr in a compass box,
and ft)r fourteen days and uij^lits the Titan en^nne, and the revolving; screw, and the li\c >
on board of a ship of nearly 5000 tons, obey the movement of that little fin<.,rer. Strait^lu
as an arrow from shore to shore. We luul on board a <;(i()d bishop of the Church of ICn,i;lauil
on tile way to his new bishopric; a distinj^iiished jjjeneral of the luij^lish arun who i>
returuinj,' from a furl()u;.,di ; merchants who, havin<r made all the money tliev can nuike in
Australia, or lost until they have no more to lose, are ,i;oiujr home, that lit)me in luirope or
America. The captain, the officers, the crew, did their best to make everytliin.^ aj^reeable.
This Peninsular and Oriental Xavij^ation Coini)any leave nothinj; inidone for the safet\ ami
comfort of the passenj^a-rs. Mnsical instruiui ills ; electric lif^hts ; healthful bill of fare:
competent libraries; cleanliness; prompt .service, abolished as far as ])o.ssible the tedium ut
the .sea voyaj^e. The fire-bell has ruii<^ twice during the voyajje, and there has been a rush of
the crew, some will' the fire hose, and some with pails of water, and others with bo.xi-,
coiUaininjj^ food for the life-boats. Hul it was only an appointed drill of the .service, aiul
there was no fire at all. This alarm, tliouj,di a little startlin>; at the time, jjave new a.ssuraiice
of the safet\- of the passenjijers when we found that cver\- einer<.jeiicy was provided for.
But what a loiijj: voyajje it was ! No one who has not nndertaken a journey around tin.'
world can appreciate how far it is. The two distances which most imjiress ns in this trjobi-
encircliuf,' jonrneyare from San Francisco to Auckland, and from Anstralia to Ceylon. .Xnd
then a feeling of home-sickne.ss comes on, — that strange sensation tliat no one can describe :
and the farther from home, the more intense and desolating. " I wonder what tliev are
doing now at home?" " I wonder if any of them are sick?" " I wonder if we will all
meet again in the familiar place ?" "I wonder if they will be on the docks to greet us?"
" How peculiar that we have not heard from tliein ! " "I wonder how tho.se letters happened
to get astray?" "How strange that they do not write!" "I wi.sh it were all over!"
" With so mnch of absorbing interest yet to see, the place that I mo.st want to see — lioiiu ,
with the home faces ! "
Hut we brush away all such .sentiments, for we are soon to enter the island of Cevloii.
With what spirit shall we enter it? Some .step ashore as hunters. The bo.xes carried
ashore by the coolies are full of gnns, traps, tents, ropes, cups and platters for extemporizeii
breakfast.s, weapons by which to take elephants, deer, bears and tigers. I can hear the tree
branches crackle, and the tramping of wild beasts of • ■ forest, and the splash into the
lakes of the roebuck with the honnds clo.se after it. I can see the trees at tlie door of the
mountain hut hung with the dre.ssed-meat quarters. I can see the struggle between leopa- ;
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TIIK WORM) AS SI-EN T0-1)AY. .07
ronnd a,„I ,™„„I i„ v,„„.x „f Id , , , , ', v' Ih't' ^ ^T'""" 'i' ""' I"""'' ^"'"""'«
WKKJHING THR .MPKROR IN THK DEWAN KHASS, INTIIA.
« , •**'*'*■,**«« n.MAa.'s, INDIA.
w.r. afterward .li.s,rib„t.,l as charities am„„Khul"'rvi;rrsuWc^ '' '"""'' """"' ""-^'""^ sIcks,,,,,! perfu,,,.,! wco.ls which
others will land i„ this island as lovers of lunnau kind, as n.oralists and religionists.
(
.
i
\;.
;
2oS
THI-: EARTH GIRDLED.
I <;a\v my poi.iiics in l)c)\ IkkkI toward llie (.■\an,i;vlizaUi)n of CinIoii. The fidelitv and scl!-
iieii and wdiiaii wlio Iilii.' iiavc lold tlu- Cliii^lly story for tlic last si\t\
listory and of cck'I)rativL' anthem in llie hij^h phues
.saciifice of the i
yeais, is a matter ol" tlirillinj
an.i;elic.
There are two thini^s I want most to see on this island: a heathen temple with ii>
devotees in idolatrons worship, and an andience oi" Cin.t^alese addressed by a Christian
mis,sionar\-. The entonioloi^ist nia> ha\e his capture of brilliant insects ; and the s])ortsi
his tent adorned with antler of red
nan
leer and tooth of wild hoar
fol
io of .nor^e three tlmnsand feet down, and of d,
mil the painter his pm t-
cloud etched with t
ire
and the botanist his c;
.t'entians, and valerian, and lotib
us ilyin.n on lA-inin};- pillows ol' jJiirpK
imp Inll of orchids, and crowfoots, an<l
I want most to find ont the i
been healed ;
vSir William 1
noral and leliuions trinmnh
how maiu' sorrows com
!aker, the fanions explorer anc
forted ; how many eiitom
irat)h
low main- womu
s lia\f
bed
nations resnrreclei
(1 ,i;ieo>^rai)her, did well for Ce\Ion after his e
I'jlil
years' reMdeiice in this island, and Professor ICrnst Ileckel, the professor from [eiia, did we
le for fntnre insjiect
when he swei)t tin
tl
>e waters, and riimmaL'ed tlioe hills, and took h
ic insects o
tlii>
*)ical air.
.\nd fore\-er honored 1
ion
sweet ill rhythm, and orapliic
memorx- be broinjlit to tell the d
)e such work : but kt all tli.at i-
eidsof tliosi' who were he
Ihit we must not aiiticii)ate. Here we are! Land,
on can\-as. and im]H)siii,q- in monument, and imiiiort,
u ni
roes and heroines for Christ's sak
a low rid.uje of shore it rises out of the se;
What
itl
I, witli here and there a li
is It
;lit-l
C
e\ion.
loin
louse urowiii" dii
coi.osHAr, innr, ,„. r.rimitA, n,.:ar kamak.-ra, japax
■riK-lrinuhl l,i,i.i/.i,l,,| i,i the «,,rI,Hs tl,. ,,„ .i„„ „ ,■„ ,i, . , ,
nuUs ,n,m V„k,,l,a„,., i„ J.pan. Th. n^,,,-. Us.,,; .lu„„;„ , mi l^'S' U '"'t i" '"' :'"' \"-''"- ■ '^ S!..nUi. i,„.^e Uv.n.v
"«!.. Il.s„,,„le.,l l..o.,«.pbU.s.,i<-Hyj„i,K.,l,„^.,.tlur ,„M , ,. , M V V '"• ' '"«''■'"' ""In^lu,,. li.c U-rnKv N 6, f, Jt
inilwiMu.llivlinic. ^ ■ " '"""hH ' ''i'"'""" ' l"-' we.alicr l.,i- ,,., lu.iiiy .vauin. , it Mill M ,i„U
14
(3..,,)
2IO
THE EARTH GIRDLED.
tinder the rising srlow of the .greater lij^^ht-Iiouse of the sky. At even- stir of the screw the
sliores become more prominent, sprinjrini;- into iiills, rollinjr into more hei(>lit, and into
nuMuitains breakinj,^ off into precipices. Hoverinj; over the island are clonds thick and
bh\ck as tlie superstitions whicli have Iiovered here for centuries ; l)nt tlie niorninj,^ sun
breakinjr tlirou<;li like the Gospel li.^ht which is to scatter the last cloud of moral j^dooin.
The sea lay alon-r the coast calm as the eternal purposes of God toward all i.slands and con-
tinents. We swin<r into the harbor of Colombo, which is made by a break-water built at
vast expense. As we floated into it the water is black with l)oats of all sizes, and manned by
people of all colors, but chiefly Tamils and Ciuj^alcse. There were at least ten boats for
each ])asseno;er that wanted to <ro ashore. It did not take lon^r for us to set aboard a craft
with five men to row and one to mana<je the rudder, and all determined to persuade us that
we had chosen the ri<^ht boat, and that if we wanted any other service durin,sr the da\- they
were the only persons to whom we could safel\- entrust ourselves.
Tlie first thing was a place to find clothing appropriate to the climate. We had come
from the winter of Australia, and here we were in the land of perpetual sunnner. We
doffed the lilack and put on tlie white, and submerged ourselves under a hat higher and
broader than we had ever seen, one of those edifices built in defiance of tlie tropical sun.
Vet, after the heat of the day had passed, we started out in as new a world as would be to us
Saturn, or Mars, or Ju]uter, or Mercury.
Among the first places visited was a Ruddhist college, about one hundred men studying
to become priests gathered around the teachers. Step])ing into the building where the high-
priest was instructing the class, we took on an apologetic air and told him we were Ameri-
cans, and would like to see his mode of teaching if he had no objections; whereupon he
began, dcmbled up as he was on a lounge with his right hand playing with his toes. In his
left hand he held a package of bamboo leaves on which were written the words of the
lesson, each student holding a similar package of bamboo leaves. The high-priest first read
and then one of his students read. .\ group of as finely-formed young men as I ever saw
surrounded the venerable instructor. The last word of each sentence was intoned. There
was in the whole scene an earnestness which impressed me. Xot able to understand a word
of wdiat was .said, there is a look of language and intonation tliat is the same among all
races. That the Buddhists have full faith in their religion no one can doubt. That is, in
their opinion, the way to heaven. What Mohammed is to the Mohammedan, and what
Christ is to the Christian, Ruddha is to the Buddhist.
We waited for a pause in the recitation, and then, expressing our thanks, retired.
Near by is a Buddhist temple, on the altar of which, before the image of Buddha, a«e
oflTerings of flowers. As night was coming on we came up to a Hindoo temple. First we
were prohibited going farther than the outside steps, but we gradually advanced until we
could see all that was going on inside. The worshijiers were making obeisance. The
tom-toms were wildly beaten, and shrill pipes were blown, and .several other in.struments
were in full bang and blare, and there was an indescribable hubbub, and the mo.st laborious
style of worship I had ever .seen or heard. The dim lights, and the jargon, and the
gloom, and the flitting figures mingled for eye and ear a horror which it is difficult to
shake off.
All this was onl\- suggestive of what would there transpire after the toilers of the day had
cea.sed work and had time to appear at the temple. That such things .should be supposed
to please the Lord, or have anv power ro console or help the worshipers, is nnlv ntiother
mystery in this world of m>steries. But we came away saddened with t
specta
THE WORLD AS SEEN TO-DAY.
sadness wliicli did not U
piL-acIiinjr in the street to
ve us until v.-e arrived at a pi
a o;roup of nati\
I had that niornin- expressed a wis!
es.
lee wljere a Christian mission,
211
:ir\- was
nu, on an elevation the good „,an was aMr.s^^^Z "otcl Tl l."' u'V "'", ^''"'•
and reverence. A reli-ion of relief .nrl ; "- ^"f^'^^^"- All was attention and silence,
were illunnned with the " uim tl of mc ficnr'' Z'' ^""""^-^^-'' -<1 ^'^ '"'skv faces
Sharon after walking an.^" ,e tks 7^^T' /^'■■;^-,— '"t- ^t was the rose of
was the (iospel after Hin<S„ '"'^ '^"^ "'"^'""^^ ''^''^ ^^''' ^ thick darkness. It
Cing;^Si;:; l:^;:;- ^^-^ ^-;;^-«; -to two languages by interpreters, first into
Strange, weird and solenn, oceasion ' ""'"'''' '''''' ''''''■'''' ^''^^ ti"'es uttered.
tahe,f t;:ihMt:^ ■:;: ':::^rji:fj!;zr'rf'f^'' ^'^^-^' -"- - --
Church when he Hollander h-dC "^/^ ^'"'^torical church, once the Reformed Dutch
a nUnister ^om Scl^lX'^ The uS ^Ls " ^^.: ll^t"^'^" '""^f ^ ''-'''' ^^ ^^'
k^raceful and majestic structure- an im ISnJ r >'-^"' ? 749, and is now, as then, a
Dntch Governors who used thenV o ^ S^^ ^'' '''''' entablatures to the
.-session. The Dutch Gov^s Ir:^ S ^Ic^;. ' th 'fl'"" 7h" '^ ^"^'"" ^°°^
st.rpnse, the great church was thron-ed 1 1 ' ' . ' ^°°' f /'"■' ^''"^■'^'•- '^^" "»'
o'clock that morning and the service vns,u^^ ^ ''""'' ''''^ ""^ '""^'-^ ""til ten
I was on opening tl^; Ps 1 VooT t nT iiXTt"t,''''T •'"'' ""'''' ^"^'^'" ""^ ^^^tled
words, "Reformed Dutch Church "foV^ ," ^'"""""^' "^ '''" ^'^^^'^^'^ to find the
l>apti.ed and received in to i i^uti-shin a d 7" f • """r "^ ''^ ^'"'^'^'^ "^ ^^''>''^^^ ^ ^vas
i^v side : Church of Chrii ^^ ^ ^ T^Z'Z vm^^VfT'- , '° ^^^^>- ^^^^ ^^^
The one proposing to cheer in this world .,. • ''^'''^' ^""' ^°^'^'^"-^ "^ ^loom.
explanation, to go no niore on fo -v '"' ^T'' transportation to a world of radiant
creature, and a revolvd„rwhed and "'si,; °''r ' ^^-'•^^-"-^tion from creature to
as a drop of water is ^^^a :;tt r::^!^^ J^^r"" 'T ^^"" ^^ ^^'^^'"^^'^^ "^
midnoon and midnight ! ^ ^ ^''"'^ religions stand in Ceylon ;
M
CHAPTKR XXI.
RELIGIONS GOOD AND BAD.
OW'i ) processions I saw in tliis cit\' within one liour, the first led by a Ilindn priest,
a linj^e ])ot of flowers on liis head, his face disfi<jnred with liolv' lacerations, and
liis unwaslied toilcjwers l)catinm- a^ many discords from wliat are stipjiosed to he
musical instnnnents as at one time can l)e induced to enter the human ear.
'I'lii- procession halted at the door of the huts. The occupants came out and made oheisanei-
and ])resented small contrihntioiis. In return therefor, the priest sprinkled ashes upon the
children who came forward ; this evidentl\- a form of benediction. Then the pn ession,
k-d on 1)\- the priest, started a.iL^ain ; more noise, more ashes, more <.;ennflexion. IIo\ve\'er
keen one's sense iA' the lud' )Us, he could find nothinj.; to excite even a smile in the movu-
ments of such a procession. Meanini^le^s, oppressive, scjualid, filthy, sad.
Returnin.!^' to our carria<,a', we rode on for a few moments, and we came on another ]iro-
C(.-ssion — a kindh- lad\' leadin,^' i^^ronps of nati\'e children, all clean, bri^y^ht, hajijiy, lan^hin.^.
The\' were a Christian school out for exercise. There seemed as much inti.'lli>^ence, refine-
ment and haj^piness in that re_t,Mment of yonnij^ Cingalese as you would find in the ranks of
an\- yonn.!4' ladies' seminary bein^- chajic'roned on their afternoon walk tliront>ii Central Park,
New York, or Hvde Park, London. The Hindu procession illustrated on a small .scale
sonietliin.i; of what Hinduism can do fir the world. The Christian ]M-ocession illustrated
on a small scale somelhin,^' of what Christianity can do for the world. I'nt those two
processions were only fra.q-nunts of the two .greater processions ever marcliins^- across our
world. The procession blasted of sn]icrstition and the ]irocession blessed of (iospcl H<ih'.
I saw them to-dav in Ceylon. The\" arc to be seen in all nations. Xothiny; is of more
thrillin,s4 interest than the Christian achievements in this island. The Kpiscopal Church
was here the national church, but di.sestablishment has taken place, and since .Mr. Olad-
stone's accomplishment of that fact in iSSo, all denominaticjus are on equal platform, and
all are doin.q; nns,;hty work. America is second to no other nation in what has been done
for Cevlon. Since iSi6 she has had her rclis^ions aj^ents in the Jaffna Peninsula of Ceylon.
The vSpanldin<.^s, the Ilowlands, the Doctors Poor, the vSaunders and others jn.st as yood and
strou!.;- ha\e been fii^htim; back numsters of superstition and crnelt}' greater than an_\- mon-
sters that e\-er swuuil^ the tusk or roared in the junjj;les.
An a.ssistant master in the Royal CoUei^c has taken the trouble to write out for me
authenticated statistics which are not dull fi<^urcs, but rcsmindint^ anthems. The American
missionaries have t^iven es]icciai attention to medical institutions, and arc doin.t; wonders in
the drivinrr back of tlie horrors of heathen sur<>:ery. Cases of sufferino- were formerly jjjiven
over to the devil-worshi])ers and such tortures inflicted as may not be described, In cases
of accouchnient, for three da\ s the ]K)or woman was kejit suspended by ropes reachin,<; to
the roof, so that o-ravitation miy^ht do the work of relief. This failing-, th.e patient >vas
trampled bv the feet of the attendants. The crisis past, the patient was laid on the floor
and pails of cold water were dashed u])on the sufferer, and it is only of (iod's mercy that
there is a liviu'r mother in Ce) Ion. Oh, how miieli Ceylon wants doctors and the nativ;
f2I2)
THIi IRON I'll, I. AH
Vliis IS f)
'il' ;o ft'ct ahiiv
n.ii reached
HitiiiKh new
lie iif the
e KroiiiKl
It is kiiDwii
TlK ii
•"•"•"iifiiiiBftlgni
NK.vR ru:r.nr.
Mrliiati.I
r_ ui.iii !,.»-, ^, ,., = „!,., vel './if inscnpt.oii.- aiul iiutal are
<lui
rests upon ili,- heail u( V,
^ the cliih ihat Hhi .iiia wiehleil, ami
iiiiiior,.
suki, tin; giKHiiti
.ie snake that supports th
the llnihthislsileclare that it
lo a heijiht
nilatioii was
as hriglit as
"orlil. jt is regankil
liierees the entire <leiitli .iC thi-
as the pallailinin of Hiniluo
(213)
214
THE KARTH (MRDLICD.
classes of medical students such as weiv ( ..lablislied Irr- liv Samuel I'isli C]
the alleviations, and kintlh' niini>l
rifs, and scientific aennieii that can
reen, i)ro\Md
jund in Anieii
in-
can
and English hospitals.
In Ceylon 132 American schools; 21 t, Church of lui.^land schools; 234 \\\'slc-\an
schools; 234 Roman Catholic schools. Ah! the schools decide most c\Lr>thin<i-. Churcho
here, and almost everywhere, aiv makin.L;- i)rolon.i^ed eiTort to do in ten, or twentv, or fortx
years that which the school mi.^ht have doiiu in a werk, if it had l)e<,nin in tinu'. II, iw
su.qj^estive the incident that came to me this mornin.L;-. In a school tuider the care of ilu'
Episcopal Cluirch two hoys were converlc-d to Christ, and were to he baptized. An intelli-
gent Buddhist boy said in the school thai all the boys on lUiddha's side were to come to
this side of the room, and all the boys on Christ's side to go to the other side t)f the room.
All the boys except two went on liuddha's side, and when the two bt)\s who were to be
bapti/.ed, were scoffed at and derided, one of them yielded and returned to P.uddha's side.
r.nt alter a while that boy was sorry that he had yielded to the persecution and when the
day of bainisni came, stood up beside the boy who remained firm. Some one said to the
boy who had vacillated in his choice between Christ and Ihiddha : " Von are a coward and
not fit for either side." But he replied, " I was overcome of temptation, but I rei)ent and
believe." Then both boys were baptized, and from that time the Anglican mission ino\ed
on more and more vigoroush-. We express no ]Meference for the work of an\- of the great
denominations. They have all done a work that will last forever. The \Vesle\ans ha\e
been gloriously busv in all parts of Ce\lon bnildiug altars and saving the people. The
native churches, self-snppcn-ting now, stand .ere stood the missions once entirely depen-
dei!. upon England. The Episcopal Church has had here .some of its most talented and
consecrated bishojis, and her sublime liturgies sound now in places wdiere nothing more
elevating was heard than the groan of besotted idolatries. Here Reverend William Oakley
toiled in Ceylon Mi.ssion fifty-three years without once going home to his native England.
The Baptist Church ha'-, preceded all other Protestant missions in this island, and dijiped
her candidates into these lakes and rivers in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the
Holy (ihost.
According to the document put in my hand in this city, there are now in Ceylon:
Christi.-ms 26-, q--'
BiuUlhi.sti i,69,S,()7o
Hindus 59.^6,50
MohaiiiUK-dans 10-, — =
Olliers 2,2«6
Mnkinj,' 2,759 7,vS
These figures suggest the magnitude of the work accomplished, and the greater
magnitude of the work vet to be done. More than anything else it iin]iresses me with the
fact that if the Christian religion is not a sni)ernatural religion it will never concpier this
world. The Buddhists are in \ast majority. The Hindus in vast majority. Tl^y were
intrenched long ages before Clirist was born. Tliey have the advantage of being advocated
by some of the mo.st brilliant and learned men of all time. Take up a book of their
proverbs, and see that we have to contend uol against imbeciles, but against ]n-incipalitie>
and powers. Read also some of the .sentiments of their religion, and find that thev ei|iud
Christianity in excellence. Buddhism has received reinforcement in recent times from
Theo'sophy, thf r;.]i<rion of moonshine, the religion of crauk.s, a religion advocated bv tho>e
who can find but little to admire in the religion of Christ which j)urifies the life, and
2l6
TIII<: IvARTH GIRDLKD.
cstalilislK'S Iioiiic, and advancis civilizalidii, ami tlic wiseacres liavc plunj^ed tIirouj,di tli •
jiin,L^lfs of two lliousaiid xt-ars to find llieir l'a\(iiilt.' i^od amid tiic buried cities of Ceyln;;
vSoiiie representatives dl" the I'.ritisli ('idvenuiieiit have also lieiped a revival of Piuddhisin.
'I'hc jiriests of that nli.i^ion are mon.' honored lure in Ceylon on j;rand reli^i^ions occasion,-
than the re])resenlatives of any other reli;^ion. And, i.iore than all, the birthday oi
linddha is now made a jjublic holiday, as much as Christmas celebrates the birth of oin
Saviour, and this under the lla^ of the best Christian (Jueen anionic the nations. \'i
s])irits of the men and women who, born under the shadow of the kirk of Scotland. >■
within sound of the lvn<;lish cathedral rollin<4' its doxoioi^y heavenward, or who, bapti/w I
in the waters of the Hudson, or Ohio, or the vSavaunah, came here to toil, and suffer, and
die for Christ's sake, tell us from \our thrones, what think \-on of this? At near tlie
close of the nineteen centuries which have ])assed since the uieteoric fin<;er pointed to
the straw jiillow in ISethlehem, we have to conlront the fact that while there are in the
island of Ce\ Ion 267, ooo Christians, there arc 2,4S9,ckx) Biuklhists, Hindus and Moham-
medans. Xotliin<^ but the supernatural in the Christian relij.rion can ever overcome that
fearful odds. I'ehold, then, the responsibility of those critics of ou" time who would
eliminate the supernatural and make the Christian reli<;ion a huniiui affair, to be advaneeil
<iul\ !)y human thou,^ht, and dei)endent upon human machinery I We are, in the atteni|ii
to e\-an,nelize Ceylon, en<4a<.^;ed in attemptini^' an imjiossibilitN', unless we luu'c the helji ot
the One who can di\ide the sea, and make the sun and moon .stand still, and cause a
shadow to _n'o back on the dial, and set up a ])illar of fire over the wilderness. Hut the
victory is comin<j^. The most of our artillery is in the heavens, and in due time it will
be unlind)ered. We nui.st do our ]iart and (iod will do His part. I believe the ]\Iosaic
iiccount of the creation, and the jj^eolo^ical account. It t(Jok millions of >ears to ^et out
the timber for bnildinjr this world, and haulinj;- it to the rit^lit spot, but it took only mx
da\ s to ])Ut on it the finishiujj; touch to make it the fit residence for the bride and t^nooni
of Paradise. So the material for the reconstruction of our destroved world may be a
lon^; while in j^athcrins^-, and centuries of Christian and missionary effort may be rcfpiisite,
but when the ri<;lit time comes, it will require only a few years, and perhaps only a few
days, to make it a fit residence for our Lord when He comes to take by the hand the
Church which is the Lamb's wife. In the nuMuwliile, what an amazement the Christian
world nnist be to Ihiddliisls and Hindus. One of them said to the captain of our shij) :
" India is a <;reat bi<; countr\', and 5(K),cH)0,noo inhabitants, but we have onl\' two relijjions,
l'*,n,<>land is an island with less than ioo,tM)o,o(>(), and you have so many rclii^ions I cannot
count them." Xo doubt that liuddhist merely stated a m\stery that must fill the mimi-
of many of the nati\'es of Ceylon and India. Presbyterians come here to Colombo a.ud teil
the nati\es that as soon as they are converted they must be baptized by sprinklintr. The
Paptists tell them that as soon as they are converted they ought to be innnersed. Tlie
Wesleyans tell them that in the churches they may ajiproach (iod in any reverential ami
spontaneous, and un])remeditated way tliey choose. The Ani>licans tell them they ou!.;!it
to confine themselves in jmblic worship to the prayer-book and such forms as the Church
of Enp^land decrees. The Roman Catholic Church comes in with its imposing rituals and
jn'oclaims the head of the Church is at Rome, and \'ou must crtjss yourself with holy watrr,
and let lur lead yt)ur worshi]) in Latin. P'rom so much original and dixerse ad\-ice I ha\e
no doubt many of them fall back n; «u the old religion and say: "Buddha's religion \m-
■understan.d. uid it tells us just liow- to do, .and it tells just tlie s.ime thing, and t(j Puddli i
hereafter we will repair."
iroii},^h til •
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vtlulay n;
rill t)f (ii.i
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J, l)apli/i il
siifHT, ami
: iK'ar ilic
Jointed I'l
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1 MdIkiih-
coiiic that
*-ho would
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K' atli.-in|it
liu licl]) of
d causu a
I'.ul the
me it will
he Mosaic
to S'Ct out
ik only MX
;ind ore Mini
may lie- .1
} R'i|iiisiu-,
)iily a U \v
■ hand llir
■ Clirisliaii
our ship :
) relij^ioiis.
IS I caiiiii't
the niiiid-
:)o aud li- d
in^. Tl;.
■sed. The
'ciitial and
hey ou.uii'L
lie Chnivii
'ittials and
loly watt r,
■ice I ha\e
elision vse
to Huddn.i
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THE KARTH GIRDLIU).
There are only two t]iiu<,'S certain : the one is tliat the patient is vtry sick, and the
other is tliat tiiere arc ten or eleven doctors in the room, each one v ,tli i ditlerent prescri])-
tion. Who knows hnt that nnder some es|)ecial l)aptism of jkjwi r from on hij^h, which shall
reach all beliefs and all orj^anizations, there may be found for missionary purposes a com-
bination of all the present hundred sects, and takinjj; the hint of apostolic times, each
chnrcli shall take the name of tlie locality where it works, and as in l\auline, Peterine and
Johannian times it was "Church of Smyrna," or " Cinirch of Thyatira," or "Church ..f
Ei>hesus," or "Cinirch of Philadelphia," it shall be the Church of Ceylon, the Church of
India, the Church of China, the Church of vSumatra, the Church of Borneo? That church
shall be in its worship both liturgical and spontaneous ; part of the service read so as best
A STATi; HORSE OK INDIA.
to express the feclinpfs of those who prefer that mode, and part extemporaneous to express
the feelings aroused by the peculiar circumstances of that day, and there shall be on one
side of the pulpit a font, and on the other a baptistery ; a stone cup for those who would
consecrate themselves to God tnider the falling of the morning dew, and a brazen sea for
those who wish in most emphatic mode to have signalized that all their sins are washed
away. In those days there will be such a complete submergence from generous, and hoh ,
and self-sacrificing influence, that the mere technicalities of religion will dwindle into the
infinitesimal, until it will take the most powerful microscope (U the double-dyed bigot to
see them at all. And Zoroaster, and Buddha, and Mahomet will be honored for the good
they accomplished, and pitied for the evil they inaugurated. But Christ shall be all in all.
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Events and elates thai arc now perliaps nncelebrate.l and p.rl.aps not not-'ocd at all, will
oo,n up into then- <leserved nnportanee ; such as, 1749, A. I)., the Wolvendal Presbvt • u
Un.rch erecte<l here at Colou.ho, and the Xew Testan.ent tra.islated into Tamil ; 1706 e
entateuch translated into Tanul ; ^H^,, Auxiliary Hihle Societv instituted a iVptist
M.ss,on connnenced.u Ceylon; :8:4, Wesleyan Mission connuenee.l ; 18x5, first S-
^chool opened by the Weselyan n.issionaries ; 1816, An.erican Mis;ion c^nunence.l in
.cylou; isus, hpiseopal nussu.naries arrived; 1833, Cotta tra.islation of the Uible in
CuKalese; iS^S, Ceylon constituted an Episcopal See; 1869, the Presbvtcrv of Cevlon
estabhshed by the n.nnsters of the Church of Scotland; 1874, a relictions conference of
I' otestants held ,n Co ou.bo which led t. the establishn.ent of the Cevlon Christian
Alliance and the formation of the Sundav ol Union.
vSurely such events are worthy of co. inoration, and the time will come when they
will make more impression on the mind and heart of the world than the number of pounds
of tea and chips of cinnamon shipped from Ceylon annually. But there is at present a
j,neat set-back to the Christianization and nioraU.ation of Ceylon, and that is in M,e liquJr
tn.ffic. IJuddlusts, according to tl.eir relioion, n.ust not take strong drink, but multitudes
of them do take It, and the presence of so many foreigners who are perpetually under
stimulants is so debasing that it is uncertain whether foreign nations are doing most for
civilization or the destruction of Ceylon. One million three hundred thousand rupees are
spent annually by Government and b;. foreign and local organizations for educational and
lassical purposes 1,1 Ceylon; 1,300,000 rupees are spent annuallv in Cevlon for strong
drink; 1300,000 rupees for gospel i^ation ; 1,300,000 rupees for individual, social and
national degradation.
But our hope is in the God who made the Cingalese as well as the American, and He
can as easily manage them in the mass as He can individuallv ; and if God can lift the
tules at Liverpool Docks twenty feet with the slender silver thread of the moonbeam,
Mirely He can ift all nations by the omnipotence of His love ! The long, bright, dazzling
flash of the hghtnmg on the summer sky may be only the pulling of the sword a little
Irom His scabbard as if in preparation for the time when He will entirelv unsheathe it and
strike for the setting of all nations free. And the thunder that rolls from these Tulv
heavens m, ■•be the rumble of the chariot of the Aliiiiglit>- as His harnessed purposes are
being fastened to it for His descent along the sapphire steeps when He shall come forth
conquering and to conquer.
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THE CINGALESE.
m
( >XOTOXOUS is an adjective of no use in tliis island. Tlic scene chani^^es e\ ei \
minute. Tiie busiest hour on Broadway, Xew York, or t!ie .Strand of Londni;,
is not more lively and spirited than the chief streets here. First of all, the nio-t
interestintj^ study is that of the jieople themselves. Hnnvn as the coffee tliev rai'~e
;ire the Cinji-alesc. The nuui's hair is worn lon.i4 and coiled on the tt)pof liis head. Consi)icn-
onsly on tlie sides and the back of his head is a comb. It is made of the shell of the tortoise.
The tortoise is hunj;- over a fire until his shell falls off. Obtained in this cruel wav the shells
are said to be of superior cpiality. The man nmst wear this comb, thon<,di for reasons it ma\ In-
co\ered uj). 1 said to my barber on shipboard: "Are \'ou a Cinj^alese? "' He rejil
" Yes." Then I .said to him : " Wl
woman fastens her hair with ]mus.
U(l
lere rs \onr comi)
■3 .>
II
e said
It i
s covere(
To an .American the men and women of Cevl
on look
very much alike. ICmbarrassin^- mistakes are sometimes made b\- an lvn<^lisliman m
American, supposinij; he is waited upon l)y a man-servant when the attendant is a maid-
.servant ; or by a lady of other lands supposint^ she is waited on by a maid-servant wlu 11
the attendant is a man-servant. The faces of the masculine Cini^alese are for the must
]iart not only effeminate, but delicately beautiful. The smile has its home on almost c\ev
face. They are a cheery race, and do more of tlie l)usiness of hajipiness on a small
capital than any other j)eo]ile I ever saw. The streets are thron.i^ed with these frisking,
skii)pin^-, ruimiu"-, jrlceful folk. Many of them have lips blood-red with betel-nut which
they chew incessantly and without an\- reference to the cleanly or picturesque. Into tin-
l)etel leaf is wrapped frequently the areca init and a sprinkle of lime, and then it is
vi.q;orously chewed. The compound thus chewed is .said to he i^ood for the teeth. I am
glad it is i^ood for something;-. Universal expectoration. They all have somethinn' to sell ;
or they will siui,r for yon a .son^- ; or they will jierform a dance; or tliev will astound mhi
with some sleii^dit-of-haud ; or they will onen your carriai^e-door ; or the\- will hel]) \(iu
out, or help you in ; all of them voluble with the superiority of their own .services to that
of any other service.
But all u]) and down the streets you iind the 'i'amils, whose ancestors came over from
India. Their heads are sliaven and always covered with a turban in the presence of tluir
superior. The Tamils are a swarthier race than the Cinj^^alese. They I'.>ok as if the\- couM
do more wi.rk and that is their reported characteristic.
I'ut ])assinjr up and down the streets of Ceylon you find all styles of jieople within fwr
miinites: Afghans, Kaffirs, Portuguese, ]\Ioormeu, Dutch, I'hi,i<lish, Scotch, Irish, .\mericaii ;
all cla.sses, all dialects, all manners and cnstt)ms, all stales of salaam. The most interesting;
thiu}^ on earth is the human race, and specimens of all branches of it confront you i;'
Ceylon. The island of the present is a quiet and inconspicuous affair compared with wli,;t
it once was. Tlie dead cities of Ceylon were larj^er and more iui])osinfi[ than are the li\iiiu
cities. ( )n this island are dead Xew Yorks, and dead Pekins, and dead P/linbnrjjhs, and
dead Londons. V.vcv and anon at the stroke of tlie arch;eolopist's hannuer the tomb <■!
some i^reat municipality flics open, and there are otlur buried cities that will yet respond u-
)f London.
11, the in(i~i
J they rai'-t.-
Conspicn-
hc tortoiM'.
y the shells
IS it in;u h'.-
Iv rt'pliiil ;
-ed." 'IMu
'e\'l(>n Iddk
ishnian "\
is a niaid-
■vant will n
)r tlic niot
most c\(.r"'
)n a small
'C friskin.i;,
-nnt which
Into till-
tlicn it is
etii. I am
ii<4- to sell ;
^tonnd \(>ii
1 Ir'1]) Mill
CCS to that
: over from
cc of tluir
they couM
witliin \'i\v
American ;
interestin;,;
)nt yon in
with what
the livin.u
iirs>-hs, and
le tonil) I I
respond t»
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222
THE EARTH GIRDI.EI).
tliL' c.\]il()rfr's pick-avc. Tlic I'oiiipfii and IIcrctilaiR'nni undcrncalli Italy arc small con;-
])arc(l with tlif Poiujic-iis and Ilerculaiieii.iis iindi.riK'at.li Ceylon. Yonder i^ an (.xlunii'
cit\' which was fonndtd fuc hnrdrcd yi'ars hdun.' Christ, standing; in I'onijJtiian s])k'ni!'
for twelve hnndred years. Stairways np whicli fift\ men mij^lit ])ass side l)\- side. Carvm
pillars, .some ot" them fallen, some of them a-slant, some of them erect. I'hidiases an i
Christopher Wrens never heard of, here jienormed the marvels of sculptnre and architeelui
Aisles throii,!.ih wliich royal processions ma.rclied. .\rches under which kinj^s were carrin'
Cit\ with reservoir twentv miles in circmnference. I'lxtemporized lakes that did tlu-
coolini^ and refreshin<j^ for twehe ceiitnries. Knins more suiL^s^estivt.' than Melrose ai;
Kcnilworth. Ceylonian Karnaks and Lnxors. Rnins retaininj^ nuu.li of -^randenr, tlnniL;
wars l)ond)arde(l them and Time pnt his chisel on every block, and, more than all, ve.i^et,,
lion thrnst its fins^ers, and jn'ies, and wrenches into all the crevices. Dai^obas, or ])]an
^vhere relics of .saints or deiti<'s are ke])t. I)a},n)bas four hnndred feet hii^h, and their falli ;.
material l)nryin<; jjrecious tliinjj^s for the si<^ht of which modern cnriosity has dii,f,tred am!
blasted in vain. Processicn of elephants in imitation, wron<iht into lustrous marbU.
Troops of horses in fidl run. Shrinks, chapels, cathedrals wrecked on the monntain-sidi .
vStairs of moonstone. Exquisite .scrolls rolling; up more mysteries than will ever In
luirolled. Over sixteen square miles, the ruins of one city strewn. Throne rooms on
which sat 165 kiu<js, rei<,niin<.,f in authority they inherited. Walls that witnessed corouatinn>,
assassinations, subjuirations, triumphs. Altars at which millions bowed ajL^es before tlu
orchestras celestial woke the shepherds with midnij^ht overture.
When Lieutenant vSkiuner, in 1S32, discovered the site of some of these cities. In-
found con,<jre<^ated in them undisturbed assendjlajj^es of leopards, porcupines, flamin<joes and
pelicans ; reptiles .snnninjr them.selves on the altars ; prima donnas rendcrinj;^ ()rnitholoj,n'cal
chant from deserted music halls. One kin>r restored much of the .t^raudeur ; rebuilt 151 m
residences ; but ruin soon resumed its sceptre. Now all is down ; the spires down ; ll:e
])illars down; the tablets down; the ,q;lory of splendid arches down. Wh'^' 'Med thn>r
cities? WHio slew the New York and London of the year 500 H. C. ? Was ihealtlud
with a host ;jf i)la<,nies? Was it forei<;;n armies layin<^ sei<j;e? Was it whole 'generations
weakened by their own vices? Mystery sits amid the monoliths and brick dust, fiu.t;rr
on li]) in eternal silence while the centuries jruess and .sjne.ss in vain. We simjily know
that "(cuius planned those cities, and immense populations inhabited them. .\n eminent
writer estimates that a pile of bricks in one ruin would be enouo;li to build a wall ten krt
lii,<,di from Kdinbur^h to London. vSixteen hundred pillars with carved capitals are staudini;
.sentinel for ten miles. You can estimate .somewhat of the size o' the cities by the re.servoii>
that were required to .slake their thirst ; judfjinj^ the size of the city from the size of the cnp
out of wliich it drank. Cities crowded with inhabitants : not like American or En<fli.-!i
cities, but packed to<i;ethcr as only barbaric tribes can pack theni. Hut their knell w,.-
sonnded ; their li<;ht went out. Oiant trees are the only royal family now occupying tlio-r
palaces. The jjrowl of wild beasts, where once the .u^uffaw of wassail ascended. Annrad-
hapnra rollonarna will never be rebuilded. Let all the liviujj cities of the earth taki
warninjr. Cities are human, havin<r a time to be born and a time to die. No nmic
certainly have they a cradle than a .^rave. A last jud.sTnient i; appointed for individua"-^,
but cities have their last judj^ment in this world. They Idess ; they curse ; they worshi'i ,
they blaspheme ; they suffer ; they arc rewan'.ed ; they are overthrown.
Some of these cities were associated chiefly with some relic of Lord Ruddha, who tin:
most of the Buddhi.sts s.iy was only a man, but they all worship him as a god. One temple
' v^ :.</
mall
cciin-
(.XlUllIU
II spl
I'lKl
Car
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(liases ail':
cliitectuiv
M'c canirn
did tlu-
flrosc ar.
nr, tli( lu-
ll 1, Vf,L;<.t,.
or plan
iK'ir I'alh 1.
i<^,i,fccl au'!
us luariiK.
,ntain-siili .
11 oxer 1)1
rooms on
)roiiati(in>,
ore till.
befi
cities. In-
iiij^oes and
itliolof^ical
■bidlt 151111
Inwn : ll:e
l(.>r
■lied tl
ihealllud
eneratioiis
ir
lust, fin.i
ii])ly know
u emiuii.;.
ill te
n lirt
e s
taud
111
reservoir-
c Clip
of t
)r En,<;li>!i
knell \v:i-
yinjij tlio-i
Anurid-
earth taki.
Xo
iidividua'
<' worshi'
a, who 'Jie
3iie temple
mi'ie
224
THE KARTH (HRDLKD.
conlaitis his jaw-hone. Anotlicr was taken from !iis thorax. Another has simply a tooth ;
iiUhoui^h imit.ilions of that tootli arc in several of the temi)les. I infer from the size of tin
loolh l!i'.;I(lha nuist have been Cyclopean, Sanisonian, Titanian. What he ever did with
a tooth like that I cannot nnderstand. How he worked a whole monthfnl of them is to nu
a mystery. No hinnan heini;' I ever saw conld afford to s])()rl such an ivory. The sailor^
talk a ,i;reat deal ahont the teeth of the wind, and I can imaj^ine from tlie way that tin-
tempests sometimes chew np a city that the teeth of the wind may be monstrons teeth, but
Ihiddha was snjiposed to be jieaceable, and wlial use a peaceable beinj^; could make of Mich
an instrnnient I cannot see. Hnt there it han,i;s — the sacred tdoth of Hnddha. Thonsands
of ])eo])le come thonsands of miles to .see it. If it were a .visdom tooth, he nmst have beea
very wise. If it
w ere w hat is
called a "swiel
tooth," it nni>l
h a V e taken an
enormons qnan-
tity of the >ac-
ciuirine to satisfv
him. I would
like to see the fiv-
ceps that conld
draw a tooth like
that. What capa-
city it woidd have
hadtoacheifonrc
it had bctinn lo
grnnu)lc
That
tooth is at least
two inches loni^.
The teni]ile is
bnilt at Kandy
THK woRSHippxTi. TOOTH. in hoiior of this
When C.aiitatiKi, kiiciwii as the llnilillia. ilii'cl at tlif ace iif So (54-1 H. C.1, liis boily was huriieil with tOOth, bllt iu .1
jjre.it ceremony, and Ironi llie aslus eiiihi relics were obtained, one of v. Iiici! was a tootlt. Tills tt)t»th h.as .. 4. / ^
iieen sacrnllv jireserveii ever since in the Mnildliist temple, at Katuly, Ceylon, which is exhibited with t C m p 1 e at L < >-
j;reat pomp ulice each Ne.ar before vast crowds that come to worship it. Itlinbf) \'On SCC a
co])y of the tooth. The fact is that the ori<;inal sacred tooth is not now in e\i,stence, l)ut
the substitute does very well for the ori<;iua]. One kins^- was .said to have offered in sacrifu e
one hundred million blo.ssoms in one day in honor of this sacred tooth. Most people
liave to be satisfied with lookin,t>; at the ca.se that incloses it, but the Prince of Wales was
allowed to see the thinj^ itself. A golden wire suspends a crystal case holdin.<>; the tonili.
I'A-en the case containinj^ the tooth is not always in sis:ht. It is put away with all possible
ceremoiu-. Lock after lock, case within case ; jewels above it, and beneath it, and all
around it. Kmeralds, };arnets, lotus leaves wrought in <;;old, and silken brocades, and
barbaric splendors amid which it is wrapt and set. Oh, what a tooth ! Was ever sin Ii
a fuss made over a molar, and that not jjennine? Other nations have .sent enibassadms
to bnv it. The C.oveti.or of Siani offered for it $250,000, but could not ^et it. Not j^ettii!;,'
it, that government sent an embassy to have the sacred tootli dipped in oil and a few drops
THE WORLD AS SEEN TO-DAY.
22S
of tlie oil allowed them ; and so it was done Tl„ ro , • •
a-puted teeth of Bnddha • indeed rLZt n Z' V '""'' ■''"■'"'■' '" ""•^•'' '^""'■^ ^vith
Lis lifetime, for 1 imagiiJ^^i^ ^^^^^^^^^^ -"■<! l>ave found convenient dnri„«
have not enon.d. teetl:. V t e 1 ,,:?. '"'"'' '" ^''""'^' ^" '"''- ^^^ "->• t-th as to
story of Hnddha-s teeth, for thJ he L th-u'ev' ""l '",''• ^"^ ""•^■" ^^'^ "" '■'^<^' ^'^^ ''-'
clentistry, that fact is heeominj ' '''■''■■ '""''' ''^ •^^^^■■"'- '^'''''^"'^"^ t- •'u.dern
l)ctter known. This important
factor of the human body de-
cides mastication ; and masti-
cation decides digestion ; and
digestion decides tlie disposi-
tion ; and the disposition de-
cides the destiny of nations.
Thomas Carlyjc tliouirht every
tiling was going to rnin because
of a sixty-year attack of dys-
pepsia. How many battles
have been lost or won ; how
many sermons have been po-
tent or a failure; how many
cliapters of the world's destinv
iiave been decided by the con-
dition ol the tooth! More
and more let it be guarded.
All prosperity to the efforts
made for its health ! Very sa-
cred let the tooth be kept,
though we cannot lift it like
Buddha into worship. We
suspect that almost every error
IS only a truth exaggerated.
Adoration where there ought
to be nothing stronger than
admiration.
Among the most absorb-
in.? chapters of Cey Ionian
events is that connected with
the pearl fisheries. I am glad
to find, since coming here,
that Sir William Baker's
prophecies concerning them
have been a failure. An in-
THE SAAMI ROCK AT TRIN-COMAr,EB (WORSHIP AT SUNSET).
he Snniiii H(^r^^• ^fr-: ^
whiehaccountitis <leeplvvenerrt«l • , ' . "™\^-"''"""K « «'estial Imltle, on
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THE EARTH GIRDLED.
or necklace, or crown gives no snggestion of the process through which it came ashore.
But for a large and efficient army of police, the pearl fisheries of Ceylon would produce i
plague. Think of the tons of oysters brought to the bank by ten or fifteen thousand fisher-
men, and all of those oysters left to spoil in the sun, except the small pearl taken from lieie
and there one, and all this goes on for about three hot months. There is also the seranihlf
for the pearls which would, but for the constabulary force, be so easily stolen. It i^
interesting, also, to know that the island of Ceylon vies with the main coast in tin,'
production of jewels. The chrysolite is here. The garnet is here. The emerald is Ikiv.
The amethyst is here. The moonstone is here. The sapphire is here. The ruby is hert'.
Five hundred years ago the greatest ruby in the world was owned by the Kmperor of
Ceylon. It was about .si>f inches long, and as thick as your arm. The Buddhist temple
at Kandy is a conflagration of precious stones. The Indian Rajahs array themselves
in the jewels from Ceylon. An English syndicate has been formed for gem-digging in
this island. Ceylon itself is a gem in the world's coronet. In many a home of Kinoiie
and America are pearls brought from the pearl banks of Ceylon. They have been
handed down from generation to generation, and the fact forgotten that they were 1)\-
the diving Cingalese, at the peril of their life, brought up from depths just off these Ceylon
coasts. Sixty thou.sand people under government license gather on these banks, and at the
sound of a ginj push out and plunge for pearls. The statistician fleetest in figures could
not tell how much has been added to the world's wealth by these pearl fisheries. But
one season an Knglish Governor of Ceylon, Sir W. Horton, distinguished himself by nearly
destroying the fisheries. As he approached the clo.se of his term of office he had all tlie
oysters taken from the depths and examined for pearls and the shells thrown away. He
hoped by one mighty haul of pearls to show what a wonderful Governor he was, and
imperilled the largest and richest incomes of this island. For a long while nothing seenud
left of that great industry. The Government house that was built fell into ruins, and
the eighteen-pounder that used to fire the signal for the boats to launch was rusted and
unwheeled, and filled with .sand. Nothing but gloom and thorny bush, and barrenness
remained on that once favored beach, up which men carried the jewels that flashed in
hilts of swords, and on the necks of beauty, and in the coronets of emperors, the jewel
that seems to be the divine favorite, because it was used in sacred classics as a symbol of
Him who is the Pearl of Great Price, and the twelve shining Gates of Heaven are made
out of it.
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EOOD.
CHAI'TI'R XXIII.
ISLE OF IVORY.
^^ AID a gentleman to n.e before I left Anstralia, " Von will die in Cevlon " Soine-
\^^ '''''f.^ '*'"'^''^'^ '"^^ •'^'"^'i prognostication, I asked, " Wliv du v,.u sav tliat ' " He
tj replied, " Yon niay go home, bnt yon will be so cbar.ned' hy what yon see in
•^ 7^ rT " ^°" ''■'" '''^"'■" '''"'' '"^^'' '^ >""^ '"""^^ '""'• '•'■^^- " I'xl^'^'l. all ingen.iitx
ol f.gnre and phrase have been employed to describe the charms of this ishuul \s I ike
Galilee by Us loveliness lias won three names, so Ceylon lias been crowiie<l hv mnltitWm
noiiK. xlatnre. Adam and Kve adjourned to this place after Paradise was eonfiscate,l-at
least so think the Mohammedans. It does look like an Edenic annex. In Solomon's time
It was called 1 arshish, and the Land of Ophir. The Romans called it Taprobaiie. Sinbad
tile Sailor called ,t Serendib. John Milton called it Golden Chersonese. Moderns have
ca led It the Isle of Palms, and the Isle of flowers; the " Pearl-drop on the Hrow of
luci.a ; the " Isbiid of Jewels ;" the " Island of Spice ;" the " Show-place of the Tniverse •"
the Land of Hyacinth and Ruby." Bishop Heber made it flimons writiii-^ about it ■
•• A here every prospect pleases, and only man is vile ;" a version somewhat changed bv the
speculator in coffee who lost his all in Ceylon, and wrote of it : " Everv prospect pie ises
.1.1 1.0 man makes a pile." Considering the coffee and tea this island has vieldul it mV-dit
1.. appropriately called the Coff-ee or the Tea Caddy of the world. It is a mixtniJ nf Vose-
iiiite and Yellowstone Park.
Amoii,,. the curions fanna of Ceylon are the flying-foxes. These creatures are like
oxes with the exception that they have wings. They are fond of palm wine, and are often
<n.iid intoxicated. The Cingalese put bowls nnder the cocoaiiut to catch th. sap ,s it
distills and the flying-foxes sometimes take too much of it. Tliev ar , - nid drunk iii^ the
n.c.niuig on the .scene of their wassail, no one having been able to c nv them home
Overcome by this inebriation, it in no wise injures them among other flvin-fo.xes, for thev
a>e all guilty of ,t. They belong to the brute creation, and ought not to be blamed for
takuig too much, and there are no temperance societies for the reformation of intemperate
(1; ...g-foxes. The .simple fact is that these flying-fo.xes are too fond of their cups Tiie
word fox means "cunning," bnt there are in : 11 realms instances of where tlio.se most cu.i-
.....g have become the victims of wine. Alas for these unfortunate subjects, whether tiiev
walk ur ily !
Ceylon is the greatest place on earth for elephants. The sportsmen have driven these
in.mutains of flesh back farther and farther nntil most people when thev come to Cevlo-i
see lu.t a single tnsk, and so far from beholding an elephant's trunk, if thev do not keep a
sluirp look-out for their baggage they lose their own trunk. Bnt the elephants afforded
great sport to Gordon Cninming and Tom Spinner and Samuel W. Baker. Well on to three
thousand of these monsters have been transported to other lands, while thousands without
"...Mber have been hunted down, their carcasses left for the jackals after the tusks had been
lint it is no
easy
bill two reasons hindered
thing to hunt elephants. I had
me : First, it
^'onld
an opportunity of nndertakiiig it,
not be just the thing for a man wh
o preaches
(227)
2 2.S
Till': HARTII (URDLKD.
tin • K'tJ^pfl of peace to Ik- <<iit killiu^^ ilc pliaiils ; and, secondly, when I went out to b it
the elephants the ilephants nii^;hl come out to hunt me, and I do not think the f .t
would he compliment irv to mvself. What an interualioual joke was the imperial elepl, ii
hunt a few \eai> a,i;o in Ce\ Ion. The sons of the I'rince of Wales, Albert \'ictoi
(leor<;e, were eoinin,;,' here, and five hundred "heaters," as the\- are called, were out I • :,
month " 1)eatin,L( " elephants from the wide expanse of the forest into closer quarters w'. n
the roval I) lys mi:.,du have the rare sport of killini,' them, i'.ut the affair was a fail 'c.
The >liip in I'ne time lauded the l)o\s in Colombo, but the "beaters" could not control ilu-
elei)hauls. When the princes arrived in the e\euinjj;^ on the approximate j^ronucU, t!]. y
were told that there were two herds of elephants only a mile otT: one herd of fitleeu, imi
the other of seven, and the u;'xt day the hunt was to be<,'iii, and the capture to be ui.n!e.
Not nnieli sleep that nij^lil, I warrant, because of the <;reat thin}j[s to be done the ue\l i!a<-.
Hut the elephants did not enter into the spirit of the occasion. That ni,L;ht they biukL-
thronjjh the guards and went crnshinjj; down the trees and disappeared anions the juii^lis,
Wide and arduous attempt was made to re-assemble them where they could be noosed avA
tied u]) and reviewed by the members of the royal family. The kraal, or stron-; enclu,iue,
made out of trunks of trees was completed. A }i;rand-stand had been erected. A placi' liail
been arran.tred for the tame elephants; a place also for the wild elephants. .Strou<r \i.\K>
were readv. The hmiter's cry had resounded lhron};h the mountains; " Hari-hari-hari-liaii-
hari-hari-ho-ho 1 " Kxpcctation was at the hei!.jht. The auditorium of the forest was
readv. The audience was ready. The sta<re of the theatre was ready— but no actors. A>
when a bill of operatic or dramatic entertainment has for weeks been published, and tin-
nij,dit comes, and Patti's throat is out of order, or the tra<;edian fails to come because of an
accident on the rail train : so this elephantine failure to appear put everythin-,' into cmifu-
sion. I'rince Albert had arrived walkin<,^ with the C.overuor. Prince (ieors^e had rn<!( in
on a proud steed that leaped a stream without at all disconcertin<; his rider. The teleKiai'liic
a]iparatus and the cable had bc<,utn to click restlessly while waitin<j for news to be >s\ nns,'
under the sea from Ceylon to the throne of Knjrland that the two grandsons had either cap-
tured, or been i)resent at the capture, of twenty-two wild elephants. Once or twice, tn fill
up the time, there had been a false alarm, shoutin<,^ and .screamiu<r, and snappinj,^ of tree
branches, and cries of, "The herd! They come! The herd!" which brouj,dit <>ut the
expectants, flushed and iiale, upon the ,y;rand-staud ; but a vi<,'orously re.sonndiu.y; " ( )li.
pshaw ! " finished that part of the entertainment.
The time had arrived when Prince Albert must take the train for Colombo, and Ik and
UK^st of the illustrious party left the scene. But Prince Geor<re remained with his tutor,
the Reverend J. A. Dalton. I suppose the minister as well as George wanted to see the
elephant.
On the following,' day something was accomplished. A man j,'ot near cnouf,di to an
elephant to be hurt, and was killed, and an elephant came to .srrief, the tail of the elephant
carried off to Prince Geor<,^e as a trophy, a slij^ht souvenir, a memento. But all were
disappointed, and the Governor blamed Saunders, and Saunders blamed Dawson, and
Ekreligoda, the old chief who had been busy with the five hundred " beaters" in <,ratli lin.ij
fifteen of the tuskers, blamed Iddonialgoda, the old chief who had prathercd the - ven
tuskers, and the cha,i,n-ined spectators blamed Ceylon. The fact was, nobody was to blame.
The elephants simply declined to take part in the mountain drama. They are a wily,
intelligent and affectionate race. Again and again a group of them have been seen stai'lui.s;
in silence about the stretched-ont carcass of some one of their family. The wraihiest
'^A
t out to li
iil< llif 11
LTial clip'
rl X'iclm
kVCTC (Mil 1
itarti'is \v!,i u
was a lai! t,
)l coiiliii! i'm-
}^r()nn(l>, I'n v
)f I'll'lifii, mil
■(.' to l)i.' Hi ii'n'.
till.' IK'M I'a' ,
it tln-\- hi-k'.-
; the jiniL^io.
t)f lioosfd ,ti'.il
)ii<j; cnclnsurt.',
A placi- liail
vStroii;^ in|n's
liari-liaii-liari-
he foifsi was
lo actors. As
slicd, and tin-
because of an
iifj into coiifu-
.■ had rode in
he telej^iaiiliic
s to be s\\ imy;
lad either vap-
)r twice. In fill
ippiii<; ol tree
)iij^ht out the
ouiuliii,y; " < 'li,
)o, and Ik and
^■ith liis tutor,
ted to see the
ctiouj^li to an
f the e!e;>hant
But all were
Dawson, and
" in <;atlu rin.i;
■ed the -< ven
was to III iir
ey are a wih,
seen starding
The wrathiest
230
THK KARTH GIRDLED.
ilcphantiiustrokf ever «iven is at liim wlio tlares woiind lur yoiiiijj. Harnessed and imt u
shafts, tliere liave l)een instances where they have dropjjed dead under tlie Iinniiliation. I; i
the stren«tli and nnconthness of these creatures diverte<l the worhl l"rc)ni tlieir ;,nntler nuali-
ties. Tlk-y must have ears very impressionable. If one he accompanied l)y an elephant-el', i-.
mer a whole lierd will do no dama<,a\ Such a charmer has hut lo hum the words, "( )m.,tiii.
ari-navi-sarinjjham-saravuye," and the whole herd fall back terrified and rush back into the
juiijrle, — under what spell, beastly or demoniac, no one surmises. How the old monster Ikis
come swinKin:^ down the centuries! In ancient battle the elephants swiin^ their tusk-< l.i
the slayinj,' of the opposiuj.; li(i>t~.
After all other means of carryiu;.,'
beyei>i;ed j^atcs have failed, tluy
have been taken by elephants
One of these ancient cities of Co-
lon stood up defiant month afli r
month ajjainst all assault Then
Kadol, a famous war clephanl,
was .sent to charge the j,mIi..
Against it he hurled himself, a
living battering-ram. Red-liof
lead poured on him from tlie
heights, he retreated. Then lie
was encased in metal plates ami
started for another charge, ami
hurling himself again, and ai^ain,
and again against the gate, it l)ur.'-f
open and the fortress was taken.
Vast, mysterious, affectionate,
gentle, over-powering monster!
For centuries he held jiossession
of these forests, and he still washes
in these lakes, and trumpets to
the mountain hurricane. If prac-
tical use can be made of him, let
the hunters come on with their
fire-arms, or their traps ; but if it
be merely to find sport that they
lacerate, and wound, and sla\-, let
them take less noble game.
Of one other creature of Cey-
lon I make mention, and that is
the most dreadful thing that glides the earth, — the cobra. Its bite is death, and thonsamis
Iku'c expired under its fang. It was a my.stery to me that the people of Ceylon and
India did not rise for its extirpati' u, but the fact is the cobra is considered sacred, ami to
have divine power, and therefore the most celebrated descendant of that old serpent, the
devil, lives on, coils up in the hall-way, attacks the bare feet of the coolie, strikes at the
hunter, and is as potent now to destroy as when it stung into fatal paroxysm the children
of the first missionaries.
LOWER FI.IOHT OK ROCK STKP:! AT MIHINTAI.E.
Miliitil.Tlc is .1 rocky nimintaiii ukjo fett high, lo which King Deweiiipiatissa
w.ns iiUiciil by the goil Mahiiido in Uic form "fa deer, and there converted to
Hndcniisni, on which account it isdeeply venerated. The sumtnit is re.iched hy a
iii^ht of iS.tn step!', of gneiss rock, winie of which are ao feet long The sight of
iiiinierous priests in yellow rohes, and ninltitudes of devotees ascending and de-
sceniling is one not easily forgotten.
THK WORLD AS SHKN TO-DAY. 231
The cobra is a K'cnuiuc discipk. .,f Hu.l.lha. In his tcinpU- v(,„ f,,,,! a statue of its
l.m.Kler hov-cred over In tl.c I.oo,I of tl.c cohra, as in cathedrals there is a halo of ii.ht
around the Madonna. To kill the cobra is to ofTen<l Deitv. To .save its life the native will
coax the cobra >nt.. a basket of leaves and float bin, .low,, the river. In n.anv cases the cobra
lias been don.est.eated, and .lelVn.ls the house like a walch-doK, an.l crawls n'p into the lapof
tne matron or bcks the nnlk from the saucer of the children. How beautiful it must be to
have one of tluii, co,led around your pillow ! The dear pets !
Tliere is a story amouK tiuse people of Ceylon that tw.. s„akes, the cobra and ticprolonjra.
at a well met a child and asked from her a .Irink. She .sa.d she would ^ive the.n a .Irink if
they wmd.l not hurt hc^. rhe>- pron.ised. The cobra kept his p,omise. but the ticprolon^a
stuuK the child to.leath. Hence the ticproIon^Ja is hated, but the cobra is honored a,,d
worshiped.
Hut the cobra has an enemy which, though small, is capable of srai-pliuK with it and
that IS the mongoose, which ^rrows to about the size of a small cat. When not called' the
inoiiKcoscs It IS calle<l the ichneumon. It feeds on an herb which is an antidote to the cobra's
poison. Ihe cobra trembles and cowers before it. The mode of battle sona.imes chosen
by tlie mongoose is to bite ofT the head of the cobra. This radical .stvie of battle leaves
nothing much to be done. After the cobra has lost his head he camiot again rallv his
forces The mongoose has been taken into other lauds for exterminating pnrposes ; to
Australia to kill rabbits, and to the West Indies to kill the rats. I suppose in all depart-
n.eutsof life that wlien there is a pest, there is an exterminator; wliere there is an evil
there is a cure ; where there is a cobra, there is a mongoose. Down with this leligion of
snakes !
Rut this reminds me that it is supposed by vast multitudes that Cevlon was the original
.ardea of hden, where the snake first appeared on reptilian mission. There are reasons for
belief that this was the site where the first homestead Was oiKMied and destroyed. It is so
near the equator that there are not more than 12° of Fahrenheit difference all the vear
round. Perpetual foliage, perpetual fruit, and all styles of animal life prosper. As far as
warmth IS concerned, no clothes are needed, and the fig-leaves would .till be appropriate
fosluon :f circumstances had not abolished the Edenese patterns. What luxuriance and
abundance, and superabundance of life ! What styles of plumage do not the birds sport '
\\ hat styles of scale do not the fishes reveal ! What styles of song do not the groves have
111 their libretto ! Here 011 the roadside and clear out on the beach of the sea stands the
cocoaimt tree, .saying : " Take my leaves for shade. Take the juice of mv fruit for delectable
drink. Take my saccharine for sugar. Take my fibre for the cordage of vour ships Take
my oil to kindle your lamps ! Take my wood to fashion vour cups and pitchers. Take
my leaves to thatch your roofs. Take my smooth surface on which to print Nour book«.
lake my 30,000,000 trees covering 500,000 acres, and with the exportation' enrich the
world. I will wave in your fans, and spread abroad in vour umbrellas. I will vibrate in
your musical instruments. I will be the scrubbing-brushes of your floors."
Here also stands the palmyra tree, saying : " I am at vour disposal with these arms I
ted your ancestors one hundred and fifty years ago, and with the same arms I will feed
your descendants one hundred and fifty years from now. I defy the centuries ! "
Here also stands the nutmeg tree, .saying : " I am ready to spice your beverages, and
enrich your puddings and with my sweet dust make insipid things palatable."
Here also stands the coffee plant, saying: "With the liquki boiled from my berry I
-■^tiimilate the nations morning by morning."
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232
THK KARTH GlRDLlil).
litre stands tlie tea plant, sa\in.i;: "Willi the licinid boiled frniii uiy leaf I snotlie the
world's nerves and slinmlate the world's eonversalion eveniui; by eveninj^^."
Here stands the eineliona, sa\in.L; : " I am the toe of malaria. In all eliniates m\ bitter-
ness is the slan,?:hter of fevers." What miraelesof jjrodnetiveness are these islands. luion-h
snj^ar to sweeten all the world's beverai;es ; enon^h bananas to 1111 all the world's Irnil-
ba>kets ; enon,L;li riee to nii.x all the world's ])nddin.i;s ; eiion,<^h cocoannts to i)ow(ler all thi-
world's cakes; en(m.!L,di flowers to garland all the world's beanty.
lUit this evenin;^, ridini; lIirou,t,di a cinnamon {.jrove, I first tasted the leaves and bark
of that condiment so valnable and delicate that transported on shii)s its aroma is dispelle.l
if ])laced near a rival bark. Of sneh <;real valne is the cinnamon .slirnb that years a-o
tho.se who injnred it in Ceylon were put to death. IJut that which once wa.s a junj^le
SHUINIC ON THK .SlMMrr Ol- AI).\M',S PK.\K AND THK SHAIIOW OK THE ri;AK.
TIrtc is iniKli dispuliiit; .it«»il Ous sMcnd fnnipriiit ; siitm' Cliristiaiis (k-cliire it was miiilc hy llii' Apnslk' Tliomas ; the Hiti'lo"^
sayitisaiiiiiii)ns~ii.n kll l>v Siva s r,j(,t ; 11k- Diulilliist- Tilaintaiil Ulat it was k-ft by tluir Criat Mastir, while IIr- MuliainimNlaii..
assert tlial the print was prudiKxil by Ailam when he was cast out of Paradise and while he .stood on one loot as a penance for hi~ -ni-.
of cinnamon i.s this eveniii},^ a park of "gentlemen's residences. The lon,i,r, while dwelliiii;-
lionses are bounded with tliis shrub and all other styles of growth con,i;rc,i,^ated lieu,
making- it a botanic "warden. Doves called cinnamon doves hop amon<r the branches, ami
crows, more poetically styled ravens, which never could .sin<,r, but think they can, fly aerds-
the road ,i;iviu,t; full test to their vocables, 15irds which learned their chantinjj; under tlu
very eaves of Heaven overjiower all with their " Cirand March" of the troi)ics. The hibiseii-
dapples the scene with its scarlet clusters. All shades of brown, and emerald, and salTi
and flamboyance, melons, limes, man<,n)steens, custard-apjiles, jjjuavas, pinc-aiiples, jes.sani
,so laden with aroma they have to hold fast to the wall, and be<;onias, jnloriosas on fire, an
orchids so delicate other lands must keep them under conservatory, but here deiiant of a
weather, and flowers more or less akin to the a/aleas, and honeysuckles, and flo.xes, an
fuch.sias, and chr\santheniums, and rhododendrons, and fo\-<,doves, and pansies, which dy
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I for<r
trees.
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T>:i.; WORLD AS SEEN TO-DAY. 233
the plains and mountains of C.ylon with Heaven. The evenin,^- hour burns incense of all
styles of aroniat.cs. Ihe convolvulus, blue as though the skv had fallcM., and butterflies
spauKd.nj; the a,r, and arms of trees sleeved with blossoms, and' rocks upholstered of moss
commmKdm.ir sounds, and sij,rbts, and odors until eye, and ear, and nostril, vie with each'
other as to which sense shall open the door to the most encliantment. A stru<ro]e between
music, and perlume, and iridescence. Oleanders reelin- iu intoxication of col„r C.rcat
banyan trees that have been chan-in.<r their niiud for centuries, each centurv carrviu- nut -i
new plan of orowth, attract our attention, and see us pass in this vear of iScu as thev ^'uv
pass the generations of 1794, and 1694. Colombo is so thorouKddv embowered in folia-e
tliat It you -o nito one of its towers and look down upon the eitv of i5o,,k,o i.eoi.le vnu
cannot see a house. Oh, the trees of Ceylon ! May y„u live to behold the moruin.. climb-
m^o; d.nvn through their branches, or the evenin- tippin- their leaves with amber and -.old '
I forgive the Ruddhist for the worship of trees until thev kiunv <.f the Ood who nia.le the
trees. I wonder not that there are some trees in Cevlou called .sacred. To me all trees -,re
sacre.l. I wonder not that before one of them the inhabitants burn cami)h..r fl..wers nid
hang lamps around its branches, and a hundred thousaiul people each Near make pil-rima-.e
to that tree. Worship .something man must, and until he hear of the ..nlv Being worthv of
worship, what so elevating as a tree ! What jrlorv enthrone<l amid its 'folia-e ' Wliat a
majestic doxology spreads out in its branches ! What a voice when the tempests pass
through It ! How It looks down upon the cradle and the grave of centuries ! As the fruit
of one tree unlawfully eaten .struck the race with woe, and the uplifting of another tree
brings peace to the soul, let the woodman spare the tree, and all nations honor it, if, throu"h
Ingher teachincr, we do not, I'ike the Ceylonese, worship it ! H.nv consolatorv that when
we no more walk tinder the tree branches on earth we mav see the " Tree of life which
bears twelve manner of fruit, and yields her fruit every mont'h, and the leaves of the tree
arc for the healing of the nations I "
r' 'j'. <,r'' -I _ __ _
GROCP 01 iUl.noO GIRLS AT THHIR TOII,KT.
CHAPTKR XXIV.
ENTRANCE TO INDIA.
OIIl': liLii.Ljal I'.ay, notwillistanding its reputation for cyclones, smiled on us all tlk-
way until t'le color of its water chan<;cd, by reason of the larije contribution <>f
UMul wliieb the river Hooj;hly, one of the mouths of the (;an<,a'S, makes to it.
I'n this river we must <;■() one hundred miles before we reach that for which we
are lon^inn a si-^dit of the city of Calcutta. We have taken on a i)ilot, and yet niu>t
anchor for the ni^ht outside, as the river Hoo.s^hly is constantly chanj^nn.i^- its habits, and sud-
denly dejiosits sand-bars, which, capsize ships, ]Mittin.<,^ them all under except the top of the
masts. One of the islands in this river is called the James and Mary, because there, in
1694, a roval ship bv that name went to pieces. The entrance to Calcutta excels all otlkr
aiiproaehes in uncertainty and peril. Just before we disendxirked, a lady said to me, " I am
sur]«iscd at nou. I saw you cahnly writiui^' while we
were passin;;' the most dangerous places in this river."
The fact was, I did not know enou<;h t(j be anNiou> or
alarmed.
Two other ships, one from China, and the other
from Hn<?land, arrived at the mouth of the river alxnn
the same time tliat we arrived, and such windini^js iiji
tlie.<;reat stream, tnrnin.u: this way and that way wilhonl
anv seemin;j: reason ; now by this bank, and now 1)>- the
opposite bank, and now equidistant from the cocoannl
palms on either side ; and then slowino- u]) until motion
was almost imperceptible, sn.tjji^ested the necessity of
.skillful pilotajje. Indeed, the pilots here receive lars^nr
compensation than the pilots of any other harbor, and
thev soon become rich U'en, if they do not make a nii-;-
take and [^o down with all hands on board.
This Hoo,Lj:hly river evidently intended von shall nni
come too suddenly upon the <^reat capital of India. Von
must wait. Von must have your anticipations aroused.
The lii;hts must be turned on <>;iadually. Von must not
have \our nerves struck by instantaneous a]ipearance.
Vou walk from starboard to larb(vard, and from larboard
to starboard, wonderin.i; from what quarter the first dome will bubble on your vision. At last
the towers, the minarets, the pillars appear. The wharves are lined with peoide in color and
dress forei.'^Mi to those with which we have for a lifetime been most familiar. The ^rcat ship i>
slowly and laborionslv jmshed and drawn to the wharf. The ■^au'^-plank is lowered, and wr
descend into a world as new to us as thou<;h it had been on the other side of the universe. \\'
had no trouble with the custom-house officials about any of our baggage except a kodak, the
DICVOTKIC ICNmUING IMRK.
•
-',%■:
J4
(2,Vll
[
THE WORLD AS SKIv: T()-I)AV. ^x-
M„all instnuncnt for takin,, plu.t,.j.raphs. TIr. oflkvr l,a,l never su-u one. He a^ked wl, a ,t
was hand hn^ u very cam.onsly. He pnt it down and took it np, ,„okin, as elose
ae< at tl.e openu.o, and then went awav to eonsider. He, after a while, ^etnrned and s.i 1
that th.s n.ysteruMjs „.ach,ne wonUl have to,o to the euston.-house-he wonl.l not t ke '
.vspons, Hl.tv ol lettn,,- u pass. He evidentiv took the kodak as a dea.lh- n .r.
"un He snspected It nn.ht I)e an infernal ntachine and had apprehension tl we
.n,,lU uuend wUh ,t to blow np the oovernn.ental huild.in..s In v,
inni
liiat innoc-ent jjeo' 'e in .\nierie;
ni we assnred
., , ... , ''^"'^ ^^''-•'■'■' aocnstonied to use it ; that it never
nuv^ded hfV, a::d we proposed to par.ially op.„ it and let hnn see. IhU this projl'd
SltlPITXr, IN TKH KIVHR HOnCIII.V.
236
THE EARTH GIRDLED.
lionif, l)Ut this is the oiilv tiiiR- our kodak itself was takun. We bade farewell
the j)asseii,L;ers, ve
rv
lew 1
n number, beeause this is earh' for travel in India.
most (lelij^litful aeciuaintanee we
had formed with General Lance, bri>;adier-<,H-neral
man(
liuij the fort, whose <'nns look down at us trum the parape
ts. The (k'ueral
IM.
nisiior ni;i!KK's statue, calcitta catiiedrai..
when they <^at from home influence. I meet so many stran<;ers in the course of ni
life that manv 'jo into indeiniiteness of incmorv, Imt (k-neral I.ance will always rem lin
been to .Australia 1 ■;•
summer recu]XM-
tion ; a soldier in
e\ery moxeiuent,
and a ^entlenia'.i
whose rare (pialilir>
entranetd us riMiii
the time we fornuil
his aeeiuaintanci- ^n
ship-board until the
da\- we left him at
his d(K)r in tin.' lurt
with a ,nroup of ili>-
tin.nnished peijplc
whom he had invited
to meet us at luiu-li-
eon. His api)earaiice
was that of the late
(ieneral \V. T. .Slur-
man. I saw this l'!n-
<;lisli officer tweiitv
times a day on my
way from Australia
to India, and always
said within my>elf:
'' Here comes (uu-
cral Sherman." The
Enj^lisli officer has
lonj^f Ijecu in the
army in India ; lias
been in battle ; and
maintains hi.uh
Christian chara^-lir,
thou<;h far awav
from the land of his
nativity, wdiich can-
not be said of all vi])-
resentatives in iK'.ii-
tary and civil sev\ '.ce
in niv mine
utlemau.
I the iniique, cultivated, oblij^inj-, talented, attractive and splendid Chri>iiaii
ge
farewell tn
India. .\
-•neral cdiii-
(.'iieral lia.i
luslralia ;' :■
r recuiH • .
soldifi 111
0\-CllU' il ', ,
e 11 1 K' 111 ,i !i
Yv (inalilir^
1 us fl. i;il
we rdniiul
luulaiire >iu
d nnlil ilie
left him at
ill llu- Inlt
roup of i\\>-
k1 people
liad invited
IS at luiii'h-
> appearance
of the late
\V. T. Slur-
;aw this lui-
icer tweiily
day on my
;n Australia
and always
hin myself:
comes (leu-
rman." The
officer has
een in the
India ; has
battle ; and
.ins hi.L;h
1 chara^'li'r,
I far away
I land of Iiis
which can-
lid of all ;r])-
i\'es in n;:ii-
civil ser\ ;ce
of my 1 :i-v
ways reiiiiin
ad Cliri^tiaii
S
238
THH KARTH GIRDLED.
That eveninji; at the Great EasttTii Hotel we planned the particnlars of our Indian jor.r-
ney. There are many thinjrs we want to see, bnt tlierc are many thiu<;s we nir,-t
see. Onr first snri)rise is the weallier. We were told again and aj^ain, especially Ir,
Enjjlish j^entlemen, that we mnst not j^o to India in September, hut we nnist <»o then Mr
not jjjo at all. We tiiouj^dit of India in this month as a sort of Nebuchadnezzar's furnace, it
not seven times, at
least three tinus
heated, and syni|M-
thized with Siunl-
rach, Meshacli aii'l
Abednej^o, We kar-
ed l)eiu<r creinaldi
in the first day uv
two. The fact is thai
we have often foiiin!
it hotter in I5rookI\ n
and Xew York than
in Calcutta.
First of all, vw
are clothed in whiu-,
and in thinnest lah-
ric. Then, in mir
sittintr and s!ee])ini;
rooms, as well as in
the dininfr-room, tlic
fan, called llu
punka, reaching
from wall to wall. i>
ever on the swiui;,
pulled by some oiif
outside the door, i
wonder that all lands
afflicted with Imt
weather have iint
adopted the punka.
It makes the dilTir-
ence between de-
lectation and suO'ii-
cation. It would bu
more expensive in
our lands than iieiv,
SITE or THR BLACK HOLE, CALCUTTA.
where wages are tour
cents a day and a man finds himself. All tliat is asked for the punka swung all day and all
night, employing;- four different persons, is twenty-five cents. Hut though American iinil
English wages would make the swinging of the jmnka more expensive, how much nerve,
and muscle, and brain, and health, and life it would save, and in the end it would l)e an
ecoiiomv.
THE WORLD AS SKIvN TO-DAY
239
I prcaclicd iiiider a ptiiika in tliis city, in a room wlicre four punkas were yoinjf, and I
kcpl cool. \\'li\' not have them in onr American clmrclies? City audiences then in July
and August wonUl be almost as larj;e as in the month of INIay. The punka is not an Indian
institution. The Kn<jlish introduced it. I'^ormerly coolies with a small fan stood all ni>4ht
Ioii<j; over the s\velterin,i( European or American. Our winters in Xew York and London
are well cond)ated h\- steam ])ipe and furnace rejj^ister, hut we need the jninka transported
to battle the summers. In.stead of huiw^ used only in our northern latituiles for the niakinj,'
of restaurants tolerable, it mi|^rht be made a matter of national health and Christiauization.
The city has ])Ut in bronze and marble its appreciation of the men who have made
India what it is. (iood and ijreat Bishoj) Meber stands in the Cathedral, sculptor's chisel
havinji; perpetuated a forehead on which j^enius was enthroned, and a face in wliieli kindness
took iiosscssion of every lineament. Von can almost hear his ).;own rustle, and see his
GROI-P nV DKVOTliKS IN A TICNn'I.Iv
finjjers tremble with exquisite hynmolo}i;y, as he writes " From Greenland's icv momitains ;
From India's coral strand." P.nt the men of statesmanship and war confront you in the
(>])en spaces of the city : Sir John Lawrence and General Outram, of Lucknow fame, reinin},^
ill a chart^er, and Sir William Feel, of the Naval Brij^ade, and Lord Hardin<,a-, and Ivarl of
Mayo.
But the men of the past do not monopolize the attention of this city. I have no doubt
there are persons walking up and down these .streets every day who have as noble charac-
teristics as belong to any of those departed heroes on tl;e parks wrapped in robes of stone,
or mounted on horses of .stone, or looking off with eyes of stone. The Calcutta of to-day
is greater than the Calcutta of the past. A great city of nearly 900,000 inhabitants. It
excites the wonder of every visitor. J -chitecture, its gnrdens, its humane intitntions, its
thronged streets, its equipages moving om in the cool of tl.^ day, its colleges, its university,
li
240
THE EARTH OIRDLED.
its fsplauadc, its iiiaj^MiifiCLiit ln>s])itals, its Cliristiaii missioiiariis art' a fascination. TIk-
Viccro)- at this season is in the IIiniala\as, and nnicli of tiif life of tlie city is a\va\, hm
tlie place is merry and wide-awake. I'olo j^anies, football, fine oarsmanship, and j^rouiK
bound on recreation are here and now to be seen by those who enjoy them, while reli,nii)n>
work is in fidl blast and ready to absorb the attention of those who are hojjinjj; for the
rcdem])tion of India. N'othiiij,' can hide the fact that idolatry and superstition are yel
dominant in Calcutta. Urahnia, and V'isluiu, and Siva have more worshipers than the (lod
of heaven.
For the first time I had the opportunity of talkinja; witli a fakir, or a man wIm
has renounced the world and lives on alms. He sat under a rough covering on a
BURMESR CART.
platform of brick. He was covered with the ashes of the dead, and was at the time
I saw him rubbing more of those ashes upon his arms and legs. He understood and spoke
ICnglish. I said to him : " How long have \ou been seated here?" He replied : " Fifteen
yeans." " Have these idols which I see any power of themselves to help or destroy ? " He
said : " No ; they only represent God. There is but one God."
Qiirs^ioii : "When people die where do thev go to?"
Attmrr: "That depends upon what they have been doing. If they have been doing
good, to heaven ; if they have been doing evil, to hell."
Question : "But do you not believe in the transmigration of souls, and that after death
we go into birds or animals of some sort ? "
THK WORIJ) AS SKKN' TO-DAY. 241
Aimcn-.- "Yes; liir last cMfatiiu- a man is lliiiikiii« of while dviiiu is the one into
whicli he will K'.). If he is thinking of a bird he will «'• into a hinl, aixl if he is thinkitur
t)t a cuw he will j^u into a cow."
Quest ion : " I tlioni^dit yon said that at death the sonl ^^'oes to heaven or hell?"
.■bis7irr: " He ^ws there hv a ^^radnal i)n)cess. It may take him \ears and vears."
(Jiu'sdoii .- "Can any one become a Hindoo ? Conld I become a Hindoo?"
.liis-a'cr: "Yes; yon conld."
Qiitstion: " How conld I become a Hindoo? "
Aiis-a'(f ; " \\\ doinf^ as the Hindoos do."
Hnt as I looked npun the i)oor, fdthy wretch, bedanbin,<r liiniself with tlie ashes of the
dead, I thonghl the last thing on earth I would want to become would be a Hindoo.
'I'll' j''iI>17iii1ia:i«'j.^v i». , \
HiNDf DKvoTEKS— CARS oT nc,r.r:KNA\"r.
I had to-day the ])lcasnre of visitin<;- the Dnff Colle<;e and of addressinjj some three
Inuulred or four hundred yonn<,r students. All of them save four or five were Hindoos, Parsees
or Mohammedans. They understood Enjrlish, and it was a i)leasure to address an audience so
alert and inquisitive. Dr. DufT raised the money for this collcj^e in his own land, and
]>ictures and statuettes in different rooms of tlie college bring to mind that wonderful
!)ersonage. How well I remember him on the platform of Broadway Tabernacle. Xew York,
I'leatling the cause of India at the anniversary of the An: ?rican Board of Commissioners for
I'nreign Missions. His vehemence was .something terrific. His manner was a defiance of all
elocutionary laws. How he wept, and thundered, .lud satirized, and prayed, and tlireatened,
and enrapt.u-ed that great assemblage ! In Dr. Duff's day this college at Calctitta was entirely
cniitrolled by the evangelical spirit. I hope it is so now, for if these hundreds of \oung
m^w are educated only as to the liead, and go forth with a developed acumen and
16
M3
Ti'R RARTH (JIRnf.RD.
aii^MUcntcd f.fAVc-T, not to comineiul Christ, but to preach Hindooism and Mohainmedaiiisin,
the ailva()l(i«c to the- /.orld would he iufinitesnial.
Calcutta i» til* headquarters of Hisho]. 'riiohiirn's work, and what Hishop Heber did in
his day Hishop 'fiWfFrn is now doinu (or the jjospti nation of India. I saw some of Ir,.
schools and preaOiLd in n .v of his people, and ^ot la< ^ in regard to what i.s bein^' d,,,,,.
here and tlinin';hont Indi
.1 i.
consecrated men an<l women, enon;j;h to thrill all Cliristenduni
witii Khuhiess. Ahont twenty-five thousand converts in India every year under 'he .Melliu.
<list missions, and ahoiii twenty-five thousand converts under the Baptist missions, and ;it
least seventy-five thousand converts under all the missions every year. Hut more than that.
Christianity is undermiuin;; heatlicuisni, and not a city, or town, or nei-hhorln.od of Indi.i
but directly or indirectly feels the influence, and the day speeds on when Hindooism will ;.;.,
down with a crash. Tiieic are whole villuKes whicii have jjivcu up their j^ods, and wIkmv
not an idol is iefl. The serfdom of womanhood is beiii},' loosened, and Die iron ^ri]) of caste
is beiu- relaxed. Ilumau s.icrifices have cea.sed, and the last spark of the last funeral p\ iv
has been extinguished, and the wheel of the Jnsscruaut has ceased to crush. .Ml India
will !)e taken for Cl'ri.st. If .,ny one has any disheartenmcnts let him keep them as lii>
own private property— he is welcome to all of them. Hut if any man has anv encourage,
mcnts to utter, let him utter them. What we want is less croaking owls of the iiiKl't. and
'ore morniiijr l;,rks with s|,iea<l win.,s readv to meet the a(lvaucin>; dav. Kold uj) n..\v
,.wmiM d Windham, and ^ive us .\riel, or .Mt. I'is<;ah, or Coronation I
Olaii am I that the last thin.o I did in Calcutta was to preach that jjospel which is to
save Iu'm, and to save the world. With what interest I looked over the pulpit into the
dark faces of these natives, and saw them illumined wiili heavenly anticipation. While
,y?f they were seated I took my departure for a railroad train. A swift carriajre bron«,du
me to the station not uu)re than half a minute before .startiuu. I came nearer to misshii;
the train than I hope any one of us will come to missin<r heaven.
CARVED IMAGES OF UAGoN,
imedanisin,
x\K-r (lid 111
Mine of lii-
l)i'iiij^ doiii
Iiristfiiduiii
Mic Mi'ih,..
Diis, and ;ii
' tliaii tliat,
Hi of India
ism will ;;,.
and wlic'ii'
rip of (.'asii'
UKTal ])\lr
All India
licin as liis
cnt'oniayf.
ni^l't, and
lid np miw
diicli is to
t into till'
•n. Whilr
fe bronchi
to niissin,i(
CHAI'THR XXV.
BURNING OF THE DEAD.
Knoland a;; now adv^ tin U 1 n dv ' "' '^ T"' ^""^ ''^^t''^ ■" •^"'-i- ""!
refined cren.aton-, the ,..: i^^::!:::^ k' 1 1:'^,.; ,. t^ ::;:V '• ^"'^"; ''"' •:"'^"^ • -'
preserved in an nrn ; hut cremation as the Hh.d os " ctif t '"^ \''''"' '^^'••^'■""v
were rowed down the river (lan-vs .uitil v/ ' ^ . . '^'^ ^'"^ "'^" '' ''"''^ ^""1
four of then, won.en wrapped in Cdn'ts .r'r" '^ " '■ " !^"' ''^™' '^•''''^•'^ •^'>'
ened, we waited and watel e,l I i^h n ' , "''''"' '' ''^''''- '^''' '^"*''' ''^^■^t-
n.n, weighed on ,ar.e l^ ac ! ^H,^ t i eZLr::; th ^ ^ "^"' ^"" '^j^ '"-' '^ -'-
>■'• In "lanN- cases onlv a few sticks can ho .(T, ■?''"' '"" ""^^'' ^" I'^'>' '""^
Iitt,e, and then thrown h.to the' n^e" t* wh^r l^':' m" '"f '"'V^ '^"'•"-' -"> ^^
to-do, an abundance of wood in nieces f,Jr '''""'''' f^''^'^'^'^''^ "'^ t'' ''^'ceased are weK-
lavers of sticks are then 7 o th^^n^n t:.'!^^^^ 'T I) '''''''-''■ ''"'^ "^ ^"-
dal-wood are inserted to prodnce fra^ . T^d^-^ tl^t T h '"'" P""'^ °' """
put upon tliis wood. Then the cover i. m, "Vr . ' '^'■'"" "' '■^'^""^'-placeand
with the water of the G , "e ^ le, e ve 1 T ," ' ''•-" "''''' '"''^ ^' '''' '^ ''^ '""•-'
and other sticks are pll^^d on lot s 1 f TT "T l' ^^^^^ '-""^M-t upon the bodv,
Then a qnantitv of ,Ja fsuffi i t Lmake ' 1 •''^' ''n'' "'' '"'^ '^^ ^''^' -'^l--^
and into' the nloutl^f tl lea , tL 1 "^H '^ '""''""-^'^'^^ - : 't on the wood,
n.ade in this wav, fnrnishes Ik fi,/ " , T^ <• the r.chest n.en in Hen res, his forlnne
eldest son .alks three tin': a^ ,^' i. "t^" ^.lia ul "^"^ 'T''^' '' ^^^^ -""^- ^'-
.a., up, and in a short tin. the bod. hal b::::'r'r :£ U;::^ t thL::; -^^
bnrn^irsir ;h:^::;;r::,?::;si:;^^ ";;;i f^^" '-' ^ - -- -->-
form of the child a crow aliLdited noon i T i • ^^'"''' ''"'■' '^'''^^'^''^ ' ^'■^- A'^^'tinjr
bathin,. in the river, dij^it' 1 t e Is fi,, i;;': """" ^'T '""'''"'•^ "^ '''"^'--^ --
muttering words of oJa led praver trU '""""''' •'^"PPl>i"R their brass cups,
and inhumanitv I had n I before see^Tl? '"'"'^''"^'."^ -perstition, and loathson,eness
the earth, but t,> n,e it is he vde stre „, tT t '""'^"VV" ''"* "'"'"" ^"^^ ^'■'■^' "-^ "'" ^"
looked all alon, the banks L 1 \ Z.r trtlLlad 'V^""" '" '"^7 ^" *^"^ •^^'^^- ^
cremations, but in no case a sad look r a .r r "f /•'"''' '" ^^'° °^ ^^'^ ''^^^'^ >'i»e
the living no ,rief for the de d " I fo^nUnt tl,: . ^° '""'f^ "^ " "°^^ '^ ^"'-^ " "--
occasions, b,:t that does not a-^^-^- for tT" I ' "'"'" '^" "°^ "''"''^ ^"^^^' °" «'"^1'
reason more potent. Meu"do^7ot see tl e V?.r'"7 .? '>'"' ""^ ^''''*"- '^'^'^""^ ''' '-^''^ther
take then, on reconxmeudation M rri ! s m f: „ 7 T''' ""'l^ '^'" '"'""'''^^^•- '^^->-
larna^es tlius formed, of course, liave not much affection
(243)
244
THK EARTH GIRDLED.
in tlicni. Woincii arc married at seven and ten years of a<rc, and are Rrandniotiiers at
thirty. Sncli unwisely-forined faniil>- associations do not inii)ly nmch ardor of love. The
family so poorK- i)nt t().:,retlier— who wonders that it is easily taken ajiart ? And so 1 acconnt
for the absence of all si<,nis of oricf at the cremation of the Hindoos.
lienares is the capital of Hindooism and Buddhism, hut Hindooism has trampled out
Buddhism, the hoof of the one monster on the <;rizzly neck of the other monster. It is also
the capital of filth, and the capital of nuilodors, and the capital of indecency. The Hin-
(l()os say they have 300,000,000 oods. Benares being the headquarters of these deities, you
will not be surprised to find that the making of gods is a profitable business. Here there
CORPSR IN OANCRR AND CREMATION ON YHR PANK.
are carpenters making wooden gods, and brass workers making brass gods, and sculptors
making stone gods, and jiotters making clay gods. I cannot think of the abominations
practiced here without a recoil of stomach and a need of cologne. Although much is said
about the carvings on the tem])les of this city, everything is so vile that there is not nmch
room left for the icsthetic. The devotees entei' the temples nineteen-tweutieths unclothed,
and depart begging. All that Hindooism can do for a man or woman it does here. Not-
withstanding all that mav have been said in its favor at th.e Parliament of Reli<'ions in
r->i.: .-i ... 1 _ _ 1 , ■, ... . . "
Chicago, it makes man a brute, and wnninn the lowest t\pe of slave. I would rather
horse or a cow or a dog in India than be a
to a Hindoo is that he was born at a
l)e a
woman. The greatest disaster that can liapj^ei
Wy4
U
246
THE EARTH GH^DLED.
Benares is iiiiposin<r in the distance as yon look at it from the otlier side of the Ganoes.
The fort\-seveii .!:,diats, or fli<,dits of stone steps, reacliinq; from tlie water's edi^e to the Imiid-
in<;s liii>;h np on liic hanks, mark a jilace for tiie ascent and descent of tiie snbliniities. The
eye is lost in the bewilderment of tombs, shrines, minarets, i)alaces and temples. It is the
<.,dorification of steps, the trinm])!! of stairways. Hnl looked at close b\-, the temples,
tlu)n<;h Iar;;e and expensive, are anything; bnt attractive. The seemin,<,' <j;old in manv cases
tnrns ont to be brass. The precions stones in the wall tnrn ont to be i)aint. The marble is
slncco. The slippery and disonstin<^- .steps lead yon to imas^es of horrible visa.i^e, and liie
flowers put npon the altar have their fra.i^rance snbmcr<;ed by that which is the opposite oi
aromatics.
After yon have seen the yhats, the two great things in Benares that yon ninst .see arc the
VRKPARINC, FOR THK IMMOLATION OF A HINDOO WIDOW.
Golden and Monke\- Temples. Abont the vast Golden Temple there is not as mnch gold
as wonld make an Knglish .sovereign. The air it.self is asphyxiated. Here we sec men
making gods ont of mnd and tlien pntting their hands together in worship of that which
themselves liave made. vSacred cows walk np and down the temple. Here stood a Fakir
with a right arm uplifted, and for .so long a time that lie conld not take it down, and the
nails of the hand had grown nntil they looked like serpents winding in and aroinid the ]ialni.
The god of the Golden Temple is ,Siva, or the poison god. Devils wait npon him. He
is the god of war, of famine, of pestilence. He is the destroyer. He has aronnd his neck
a siring ol sknlls. Before him bow men whose hair never knew a comi). Thev cat carrion
and that which is worse. Bells and drnms here set up a racket. Pilgrims come from
mi
24S
THE EARTH GIRDLED.
Imndrecls of miles away, spenclinor their last piece of money and exliaustinjr their last atom of
strenjrth in order to reach this Golden Temple, <,Wad to die in or near it, and have the aslas
of their bodies thrown into the Ganj^es.
We took a carria<;e and went still Anther on to see the Monkev Temple, so-called
because in and around the building monkeys abound and are kept as sacred. All evohui(m-
ists should visit this temple devoted to the family from which their ancestors came. TIk,.
monkeys chatter, and wink, and climb, and look wise, and look sillv, and have full posse-
.sion of the place. We were asked at the entrance of the Monkey Temple to take off Om
.shoes because of the sacredne.ss of the place, ])ut a small contribution i)]aced in the hands of
an attendant resulti(! ui a
*■'• permission to enter with
our shoes on. As tlu'
Ciolden Temjile is (Kdi-
cated to Siva, the poisdu
god, this -Monkey Temple
is dedicated to Siva's wile,
a deitess, that must Ir-
propitiated, or she will
disease, and blast, and de-
stroy. For centuries this
spit-fire has been wor-
shiped. She is the god-
dess of scold, and slap, and
termagancy. She is sup-
posed to be a supernatural
Xantippe ; hence to 1ki
are brought flowers and
rice, and here and there
the flowers are spattered
with the blood of goats
slain in sacrifice.
As we walk to-diu-
through this Mouke\
Temple we must not hit,
or tease, or hurt one u\
them. Two I^nglishuku
years ago lost their live--
bv the maltreatment of a
monkey. Passing along one of these Indian streets, a monkey did not .soon enough get out
ot the way, and one of the Englishmen struck it with his cane. Innnediately the"]ie"P'^'
and the priests gathered around these strangers, and the public wrath increased until the two
Kngli.shmen were pounded to death for having struck a monkey. Xo land in all the world
so reveres the monkey as India, as no other land h-s a temple called after it. One of the
Rajahs of India spent ioo,oof) rupees in the nuarriage of two monkeys. A nuptial proces-
.Mon was formed, in which mo\ ed camels, elephants, tigers, cattle, and palancpiins of richlv-
dressed pe<jple. Hands of music .sounded the wedding march. Dancing parties kept tlie
night sleepless. It was twelve days before the monkey and monkeye.ss were free from their
URAH.MA AS THIC I'Ol'R-l-ACia) lUUDHA.
ist atom of
J tlic asliL.-.
e, so-callcil
evohuion-
ic. TIkm-
full ])()SS1.--
ikc off our
le hands o{
■sultf'.I 111 a
LMitcr witli
. As tlu-
lo is (lt.(!i.
tllC Jloisnil
cy TciiipK-
Mva's wilV,
must Ik-
slie will
1st, and di'-
itnrics this
3CC11 wor-
1 the <;o{l-
dslap, and
>he is sii])-
pernatnial
ice to lu-r
3\vers and
and there
spattered
I of <;i)at>
dk to-dnv
Monkev
>t not liit,
rt one of
i,qlislinn.-ii
dieir livi--
;ment of a
;li i^et out
lie people
:il the two
tlic world
)ne of tlu
ial proces-
of riclily-
kcpt tile
Vom tlieir
250
TlIIv IvARTII (;iRI)LHD.
round of <rriy attentions. In no ])lacc hut India could such a carnival have occnrrcd. lim
alter all, while we cannot apjjroxe of the Monke\- Temple, the niouke\ is sacred to hilavil\
I defy an\- one to watch a monkey one minute without lau,<,diler. Why was this creature
made? I'or the world's amusement. The mission of some animals is left doubtful and \\\
cannot see the use of this or that quadruped, or this or lh;il insect, hut the mission of tju-
ajie is certain ; all around the earth it entertains. Whether seated at the top of this W\n\>u
in India, or cuttin<.i- u]) its antics on the to]) of a liand-or.^an, it stirs the sense of the ludi-
crous ; tickles the diaphra.L^m into eachinnation ; tojjples oravity into play, and accom]>li- hi -
that for which it was created. The ca.i;le, and the lion, and the j^;azelle, and the rohin m.
more certainly have their mission than has the nionke\-. Hut it implies a low form oi
Ilindooism when this endjodied mimicry of the iiuman race is lifted into worship.
There are, however, alleviations for Hcnares. I attended worshi]) in one of the Christian
missions. The sermon, tliou.s^h delivered in Hindoostanee, of which I could not understaml
a word, thrilled nie with its earnestness and tenderness of tone, especialh- when the
uiissionarv told me at the close of the service that he recently baptized a man who was
converted tlirou.ijh readiui; one of my sermons amont;- the liills of India. The songs of the
two Christian assenibla<jcs I visited in this city, althon<,di the tunes were new, and the senti-
ments not translated, were upliftiu*; and inspirin|j[ to the last de<;ree. There was also a
school of 600 native jj;irls, an institution established by a Rajah of o-enerosity and wealth,
a t^raduate of Madras University. But more than all, the missionaries are busy, some ol
them preachino; on the f^hats, some of tliem in churches, in chapels, and bazaars. The
London Missionary Society has here its colk\<4c for \()un>^ men, and its schools for children,
and its houses of worship for all. The Church ^li.ssionary Society has its ei^lit schools,
all filled with learners. The evan<jclizing work of the We.sleyans and the Haptists are felt
in all parts of Benares. In its miirhtiest stron<;;hold Hindooism is beinjj^ assaulted.
And now as to the industrious malij^nment of missionaries : It has been said 1)\- some
travelers after their return to America or En,i;land that the missionaries are leading- a life
full of indolence and luxury. Thr.t is a falsehood that I would sa\- is as hij,di as hea\eii
if it did not y^o down in the oi)posite direction. When straujj^ers come into these tro])ieal
climaces, the missionaries do their best to entertain them, niakin<;- sacrifices for that purpose.
In the cit\ of Benares a missionary told me that a iicntleman cominj^ froin ICu^land into
one of the mission stations of India, the missionaries banded tooether to entertain him.
.\mon<>- other tliiuf^^s, they had a ham boiled, prepared and beautifully decorated, and the
.same ham was passed around from house to house as this stranj^er appeared, and in other
respects a conspiracy of kindness was effected. The visitor went home to lMi<>land and wrote
and s]K)ke of the lu.xurv in wdiicli the missionaries of India were livini^. Americans and
Kujrlishmen come to these tropical regions and find a missionary livin<;- under palms and
with different styles of fruits on his table, and forget that jialms are here as cheap as hickor\
or pine in .America, and rich fruits as cheap as plain apples. They find here missionaries sleep-
iiijj^ under jjunkas, these fflns swuni:^ day and nii^dit by coolies, and forj^et that four cents a dax i-
j^-ood waives here, and the man finds himself, h'our cents a day for a coachman ; a mi.ssionar\
can afford to ride. There have bei'ii missionaries who have come to these hot climates resohiii-
to live as the natives live, and one or two years have f.nished their work, their chief use on
missionary j^ronnd beiiii;- that of furnishinq; for a lar<^e funeral the chief object of intcroi.
So far from livin;,;; in idleness, no iiu'ii on earth work so hard as the missionaries in tlu-
forei.gn field. Ajjainst fearful odds, and with three millions of Christians opposed to two
hundied and fift\- millions of Hindoos, Mohammedans and other false relij;ions, these
:
L
!ii
rred. liui
to liilaiil\ ,
lis creatine
ifnl and vw
^inll of ilu-
lliis t(.iii|ili.
r llic liu'.i-
C()iii]>li-lu ^
ic r()l)in un
j\v fdnii i>i
I.' Cliri.stian
uiulfrslaiid
when tln'
.11 who was
OllfJS of tlU'
1 the seiiti-
was also a
lul wealth,
y, some ol
aars. The
11" children,
lit schools,
sts are felt
■d.
1 h_\' some
uliii<,r a life
as hea\ ell
se trojiieal
\t pur] lose.
S^laiid into
rtaiii him.
d, and the
tl in other
and wrote
ricans and
palms and
as hickor\
:iricssleii)-
its a (lav i-~
ini.ssiona! \-
s rcsohin^
lief use on
if intcrol.
ries in the
sed to tw"
ons, tliese
ooSAiN Tic.Mi'i.i:, iii;.\,\Ki;s,
(251)
252
THK KARTII c;iRl)Ll<:i).
missionaries arc tryin.ij; to take India for dod. IaI the- jjjood people of America, and Kiijr.
laud, and Scotland, and of all Clirisleiidom add ninety-nine and tliree-qnartcrs per cent to
tiieir appreciation of the fidelity and consecration of forei<,Mi missionaries. Ivir awav from
home, in an exhan.stinjj; climate, and comi)elled to send their children to Iuif,dan(l, Scotland
or America so as to escape the corrupt conversation and behavior of the natives, these men
and women of tiod toil on nntil tl-.ey droj) into their j;raves. Unt they will j^'ct their chief
appreciation when their work is over and the day is won, as it will he won. Xo place in
heaven will he too j^uod for them. Somo of the ministers at home who live on .salaries of
$4000 to $5000 a year, preachinj; the j^ospel of Him wdio had not where to lay His head,
will enter heaven and he welcomed, and while lookinj,' for a place to sit down, tiie\- will he
told : " Yonder in that lower line of thrones yon will take yonr places. Not m the thrones
nearest the King; they are reserved for the missionaries!"
THIC KINt'. Ol- Nlil'AlL, .\.M> CU.M.MANDING UL:N1;KAI..S
CIIAPTKR XXVI.
(H
GREAT SNAKES.
HAT a suffpfcstivc word is tlic word " snakes ! " Von cannot i-rononncv it williont
two hissLs. Wtii, tho snakf question in India is an ahsorhin- (incslion. In
licnj^ai, i. c, the rc-iou ai)i)roxiniatc to Calcutta, in i,S,;_' ijurc were 91.^0
deaths caused by the bite of seri)ents, and last vear ir,,747 (k-aths. On an
avera-e, 20,000 people die of snake-bite in India everN- vear. \„ ^v,.n(k■r the Government
has oITered a reward for the killin- of snakes, and 1 17,12,, have been slain !
In a former chapter I stated that the natural eueniv ..f the serpent was the nion..-oose
the latter livinjr on herbs that arc an antidote to the poison, but since then I have sven a
contest between a cobra and a mon-oosc, and have from my own observation to correct
some thin<;s that were told me about them.
They were in the possession of a snake-
charmer. The mon<i;oose is about the
color and size of our American squirrel,
and one would think it unable to cope
with the cobra, but the quadruped can
master the reptile. As the snake-charmer
put forth the cobra and the nion<^oose,
they seemed unwilling to touch each
other, the cobra avoidinj^; the nion<(oose
and the mon,y;oose avoidin<r the cobra.
Hut the owner of the two was determined
to bring on battle, and he succeeded. The
mongoose coming too near the cobra, it
lifted its head, widened it into the shape
of a hood and struck its fangs at the
mongoose. The mongoose bit back at the
assailant, and the cobra gave a second
stroke. Then the ire of the mongoose
was up, and it went furiousl\- at the reptile.
They seized each other in the fray, in which it was evident one or botli must die. The
mongoose took the cobra by the brain and held on with a prolonged 1)ite, accompanied by
the wagging of its head as if in emphasis of rage, and the cobra wound its thick folds about
the mongoose, round and round, until the quadruped was hidden beneath the ringlets of the
serpent. The teeth of the quadruped sank into the brain of tlie reptile, and tire folds of
the snake coiled about the neck and body of the mongoose. Matters had gone so far there
could be no truce, no let-up, no halting. Tighter and tighter the coil of ''the one ; deeper
and deeper the teeth of the other. Now it would seem that the cobra would gain the day,
and now the mongoose. 1 hno-.v not which of the cont.stants enlisted the sympathies of tlie
other by-standers, but my sympathies were with the mongoose. The result could not be
(253)
MON-GOOSE.
=54
THE KARTH OIRDLHD.
miicli I()ii<rer postponed. One more tenihle writliiiij,' and strngj^rle and all was still. Then
ont from tlie foam, and blood, and dust, and Airy of the fray walked the mongoose, the
cobra >,Mvinf,r no si^r,,. u ],a,i jriven its last hiss. It had bitten the last child. It had lifted
its horrid crest for the last time.
This reptilian curse is overywhere in India. Taking a walk in one of the cities, nine
o'clock in the evening, one of the.se creatures wriggled across the pavement. The next
morning, walking ont, a cobra pre-
sented it.sell for the a.s.sanlt of my
friend.s. A missionary here told me
that he .saw a large cobra which
had been caged and petted bv a
native man and woman, and tiiev
let it crawl away, and as it went
into a hole the man and woman
said, " (iood cobra ; dear coljni ;
.salaam ; .salaam."
We were in several places
where on rising in the morning I
was careful to examine my shoes to
see if they were occupied by a
snake, for they love to coil u]) in
shoes. Occasionally tliey crawl
into the bed, and moi ? Jian once I
was told not to let the shawl on
the bed cover hang to the floor, for
.sometimes snakes ascended to co-
partnership in slumber. When I
objected to two lizards in the room
they were pronounced of no im-
portance, and I could get no one
to expel them. Every native and
every P'uropean has some nice
snake story with which he is rcadv
to entertain you. That crawling
creature, for which we have such
an aversion, e.xcites no such feel-
ings in the natives of India. One
of the cities is named after it —
Nagmore, or The City of the
Snake. Temples have been dedi-
cated to it. The shadow of the
reptile falling on any one is considered a sure promise of good luck. A day in Jtilv is .set
apart for special homage to it. Its worshipers draw a serpentine figure on a house and
then clasp the hands in prayer before it. On that especial Sabbath of the year they sit
down by caves, or near holes in the earth, waiting for reptiles to appear, and if they appear
fruits are ottered. Snakedom is a strong dominion in India. The bite of the cobra is
never cured. Nitrate of silver, and arsenic, and ammonia, and snake-stone have been
FESTIVAI, OF THE SKKPKNTS.
THE WORLD AS SEEN TO-DAY.
255
used in vain. Tlic patient must die. It is ciilv a n-.attcr of a few hours. The snake-
charmers who play witii these creatures have, I inuiHiue. in must eases previouslv e.Ntracted
the fangs.
A Hindoo hoy, mentioned by the daughter of Sir Hartle Frere, couhl with his voiee
charm these creatures. Tliey would come out of tlie fiekls, and from anion- the rocks and
play around Inm and do as lie commanded. .So ^rcat was the power of this youuij charmer
that people came from far and near to
H'f him, and many to worship him.
At last he sported with these products
of the juuffle once too often. Under
some provocation one of them struck
him and he died.
It was entertaining to see a lad in
juK'glfry with snakes in front of our
liotel. He would take a blanket and
shake it out in our presence, and no
snake was in sight. Afterwards he
would wrap the blanket around him
and then drop it, and around his neck
was coiled a long reptile. He would
blow a noisy musical instrument, and
all the snakes in tho basket would lift
up their heads and the snake on the
ground would begin to dance. Did
ever orchestra entertain such an audi-
ence ? These snakes prefer cool places
and a gentleman told me that one
morning in one of these large cities
he found a cobra peacefull\- and hap-
pii\- resting itself in his bath-room.
When property is deeded it is quite
usual to mention the snakes as deeded
with it.
Walking through a public garden
a geutleiuan said to me : " Be a little
careful and watch where you tread ;
for there are a good man\- snakes in
this region." Returning from the walk
to our carriage we found a monstrous
snake close bv. It was dead. Some
INDIAN CONJI'RTXr, TRICK.
young men had killed it and would, as a joke, have put it in our carriage, but the driver
said he had protested.
Passsing along a street my son said : " Did you notice what was on the side of you ? "
1 said, » No." Then he drew my attention to the fact that we had passed near several lar<re
baskets of cobras— of course, under the care of their keepers. Bishop Heber, I:no^\n as\
good authority in missionary hviimologv, is not .so well known as an authority on great
snake.s, but in a chapter of his diary written on the Ganges, he gives this experience : "
356
THK EARTH GIRDLKD.
"'IMiis iiiorniii^,' as I was at hnakfasl tlu- alarm was ^ivi'ii of a >,^rcat snake in ihv aftii
cabin, wliidi luul found its way into a basket containinjf two caps, presents for my wife and
myself from Decca. The reptile was innnediately and without examination pronouneed t-
be a cobra, anil caused },'reat alarm amon;,^ my servants. However, on (lislod),Mn)^r it fr,,,,! j,,
retreat, it i)ro\i.(l to ))(.• only a water-snake. It appeared to have been coiled u\
) very ileal I',
around the fur of a cup, and thou<,di its bite would not ii,
l\c
1)een venomous, it certainly would liave inflicted a se\ii\-
wound on an_\body who luul incautiously oiiened the l)a>kit.
I had once or twice fancied I heard a ^H'utle hissin^r, |,|.i
the idea of a snake in the boat seemed so impossible thai
I attributed the noise to difTerent causes, or to fancy. Much
wonder was expressed at fiiidinj,' it in such a place, but a> 1
have seen one of the same kind climb a tree, it is i)robalile
that it had ascended one of the ropes by which the boat is
moored, and ^o <rot amonjj; us. I have heard of one Kiit^lisli
lady at I'atna who once lay a whole ni},dit with a cobra umli r
her ])illow. She repeatedly thoU},dit duriu.ij the nij^lil thai
soinethiii},^ moved, and in tlie inornin<r when she snatciud
the pillow away she found the thick, black throat, the sqiuuv
head and green, diamond-like eye advanced within two iuclus
of her neck. The snake, fortunately, was without malice.
His hood was uninflated, and he was merely enjoyiui^ tlu
warmth of his nest. But, alas for her if she had duriui; ih^
ni},dit pressed the reptile a little too roughly ! "
So wrote the good Bishop. I wish he had gone on and
given us his opinion why the snake was created at all. It
may be that, before its Ajwllyonic possession, its streaks, ami
spots, and variegation of coior may have been attractive and
it was a study of the beautiful. It may be that the world
needed the reptile as a perpetual symbol of the sly and the
]ioisonous. It may be that the human race required adnumi-
tiou of the fact that under the loveliest and sweetest tiling-
lurks peril. Perhaps it was to make one more addition to tlie
world of mystery, the realm of the unknown always vaster
than the realm of the known. After we have carried the
torch of exploration into some cathedral of mystery and nw
congratulating ourselves that we have found out everytliiny,
we look around and discover that for the one open door we
have entered there are twenty doors yet unopened. Larger
than all the combined libraries of what the world knows
would be the library of what the world does not know.
Come now, thou wise-acre! Explain the cobra di capelio.
As for myself, I adjourn the attempt at explanation. What a dull place heaven would he
if we knew everything here ! Universal knowledge now would stupefy the eternities.
In our northern latitudes, where we so seldom see the .sly and venomous reptile, we can
hardly appreciate why such prominence is given in Oriental literature, and especially in tiie
Holy Scriptures, to metaphors connected with the reptile. The sufferings of Christ and His
A HINDOO JCCGLER.
in tin.' afli 1
ii\ wiff.'iiid
)11<)UIKT(1 l-
I,' it t'roiii its
very iRMiK
(1 Udt ll.l\
.■<! a scwii'
tin.' haskit.
lissinjj, hilt
ussihk" tlia;
icy. Miuh
cc, but as I
is prohahk'
tile boat i>
iiic I\iii,flisli
robm »ii(l( r
nij,^ht that
ic snatciud
the squaif
two iiichis
)ut malice.
joyiii>> the
duriii>4 the
)ne on ami
I at all. It
treaks, and
•active and
the world
;]y and the
i(\ adnioni-
Icst things
ition to the
ray.s va.st( r
carried the
■ry and are
iverythini;,
:n door we
i. Larj^ar
irld knows
not know.
di capelio.
1 would he
nities.
:ile, we can
ially in tiie
ist and His
2vS
THE EARTH GIRDLED.
<;ainin,L;-tahle. Tlicy lift their liuads auioiij; {he oran.i,^' l)l()SS(;iiis of unwise inarria^t<.
Thcv crawl under tlic >L-a willi the len^tli of a submarine cal)lc. They arch lli.
heavens with international malevolence. They wind the throat of every cannon. Tliev
snu!^^i;le in the hilt of every sword. Tliey are in tlie black links of ever\- cliai:;.
Cobras I Awav with them! The jj;ospel balm is the only antidote to the ])()ison. Tli
tliunders of the I.ord Cod Alini<;hty and the Lamb are the only thin<;s that can deslr..;.
them.
HINDOO STONli CARVKRS.
niarnai^i.--.
y avcli til.
noil. Tlu'v
very cliaii;.
:)isoii. 'I'll
can ck-i>lii/.
I'V!
CHAI'TKR XXVII.
THE TRAGEDY OF LUCKNOW.
'S our train ulided into the dinily-liohtal station, I a^kcd Hr. ..nanl " Is this
I.iickiKnv?" and he- answered, " Luckiunv," at the i,n.nuiiei/rti,,n nf which
pr()]icr name ciiioIkjiis rushed tliioii.oli hndv, mind and m)ii1.
Tlie word is a svii„iiym of sulTerin- of enieltv, .,f heroism, <,f l„,m.r
snch as IS sti-rested l>y liardly all^• other word. We lu.ve lor thirtx-f.ve vears l.eeii readiiijr
ot tlie a-onies there endured and the darin- deeds there witnessed. It was mv -real desire
to have some one who had witnessed the .scenes transacted in Lncknow in iS^r^coiKlnet lis
over the ])lace. We found just the man. He was a voiino- sohlier at the tinie the -n-ealest
mutiny ot tlie a-es broke out, and he was put witli others inside of the Resi.leiicy" whicli
was a cluster ot huildin^s makin- a fortress in whicli the representatives of theKii.dish
(iovermncnt lived, and which was to be the .scene of an endnrance and a bombafdnieiit"' the
story of which, poelr)- and paintin- and historx-, and secular and sacred elocineiice have
l.eeii tryin- to depict. Onr escort not only had a ^ood nieinorv of what had hai.iKmed but
had talent eiion<4h to rehearse tlic tra.ijedy.
In the earlv part of 1857 all over India the natives were ready to l)reak out in rebellion
a^'auist all forei,<,niers, and especially a-aiii,st the civil and militarv representatives of the
Enjjlish Governnient.
A half <lozen can.ses are mentioned for the feelino- of discontent and insurrection tiiat
was evidenced thronshont India. The most of these causes were mere pretexts (ire ised
cartnd-es were no doubt an exa.speration. The -rease ordered bv the Knt,dish Ciovernnient
to be used on these cartridges was taken from cows or i>ius, and urease to the Hindoos is
unclean, and to bite these cartridges at the loadin- of the irnn-s would be an offence to tlie
Hmdoos' reliKHon. The leaders of the Hindoos .said that these .i,n-eased cartridges were onlv
part of an attempt by the English Ciovernment to make the natives give up their religion-
lieiice unbonnded indignation was aroused. '"" '
Another cause of the mutiny was that another large province of India had been
annexed to the British Empire, and thousands of officials in the emplov of the kin-, of that
province were thrown out of position, and they were all reach- for trouble-makin<r
Another cause was said to be the bad goveriiment exercise.l bv some lundish olTiciaks
111 India. ' '""
The simple fact was that the natives of India were a conquered race, and the iMi-dish
were the conquerors. For one hundred years the Hritisli sce])tre wave.l over Iiulia and the
In.hans wanted to break that sceptre. There never had been anv love or svmixathv between
llie natives of India and the ICnroix-ans ; there is none now.
Hefore the time of the great mutiny the English (lovernment risked much power in
the hands of the natives. Too many of them manned the fort.s. Too many of them were
ni governmental employ. And now the time had come for a wide outbreak. The natives
Had persuaded themselves that they could .send the English (lovernment flvin-r and to
acconipli.sh it, dagger, and sword, and firearms, and mutilation, and slaughter must <lo their
worst.
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26o
THE EARTH (HRDLED.
It was fvi<k-iU ill Luckimw tliat iIr- iiali\es were ahoiit to rise- and put to deatli all ih;
iMuopians tliLv could la\- their hands on, and into the Residency the Christian po]Milati()ii
of Lucknow hastened for defence from the ti.i^ers in hiinian form which were s^rowliiiL; for
their victims. The occn]iants of the Residencx', or fort, were niilitar\- and non-coiiiljataiit--,
men, women and children, in nnmher about 1692. I su,iL;-,L;est in one sentence some of the
chief woes to which they were subjected, when I say that these jieople were in the Residem \
five months without a sin.<,de chaui^e of clothinj,'- ; some of the time the heat at 120 and i^-
dej^rees ; the place black with Hies, and all asquirm with vermin ; firin^q; of the enemy upon
them ceasinj>; neither day nor ni.^ht ; the hospital crowded with the dying ; small]H)x, scurvy,
cholera, adding their work to that of shot and shell ; women lirought ii]) in all comfort and
never having known want, crowded and sacrificed in a cellar where nine children were born ;
I.IKrTl-.NANTS IIAVia.OCK ANH ITSia.tKN.
less and less food ; no water excejit that which was brought from a well under the eiieniv's
fire, so that the water obtained was at the price of blood ; the stench of the dead horses added
to the cflliuia of coipses, and all tlie sufTerers waiting for the moment when the arniv
of 60,000 shrieking Hindoo devils should break in upon the garrison of the Residencv ;
now reduced by wounds and sickness and death to 976 men, women and children.
"Call nie earlv," I said, "to-morrow morning, and let us lie at the Residency belon-
the sun becomes too hot." At seven o'clock in the morning we left our hotel in Lucknow,
and I said to our obliging, gentlemanly escort, " Please take ns along the road by which Ilav--
lock and ( )ntram came to the relief of the Residenc\ ." That was the wa\- we went. Theri-'
was a .solemn stillness as we approached the gate of the Resideiicx'. ISattered and torn is
the masonry of the entrance. Signature of shot, and punctuation of cannon ball, all up
*%.
death all tin
;i li(t])ulalu)ii
j^rowliiij; fcr
-combatant-,
SOUR' of tin.'
K- Rcsi(iciu\
1 20 and 13"
(.■iicniy upon
Ijiox, scnr\\ ,
conifovt and
11 were horn ;
\ .-A
the eneni\ 's
horses added
.■n the arniv
Residcnc\ ;
n.
;lency hefon'
n Lucknow,
which IIa\',-
vent. Their
1 and torn i-;
1 ball, all up
262
THE f:arth girdled.
aiul down and c\ er\ wIkiv. " Here to llie left," said our esc(jrt, " are the remains of a
bnildin,^, tiie first floor of which in otlier days had l)eeii used as a 1)anqnctinji; liall, l)nt tlien
was nsed as a hospital. At this part the amputations took i)lace, and all such patients died.
The heat was so threat and the food so insufficient that the poor fellows could not recowr
from the loss of blood ; they all died. Amputations were performed vithout chloroform.
AH the ameslhetics were exhausted. A fracture that in other climates and under other circum-
stances would ha\e come to easy convalescence, here proved fatal. Yonder was Dr. Fayrer's
liouse, who was surijeon of the place, and is now Queen \'ictoria's doctor. This upper
room was the officers' room, and there vSir Henry Lawrence, our dear commander, wa-^
wounded. While he sat there a shell .struck the room, and some one su<;gested that he had
GKNKKAI, HAVKr.OCK'S GREETING I)V THE CHRISTIANS WHOM HE SAVI'.D.
better leave the room, but he smiled and .said, ' Lightning never strikes twice in the same
place.' Hardly had he said this when another shel' tore off his thigh, and he was carried
dying into Dr. Fayrer's house on the other side of the road. Sir Henry Lawrence had been
in poor health for a long time before the mutiny. He had been in the Indian service for
years, and he nad started for England to recover his health, but getting as far a^ Bombay,
the English (rovernment requested him to remain at least a while, for he could not he
spared in such dangerous times. He came here to Lucknow, and fcreseenig the siege of
this Residency had filled many of the rooms with grain, without which the Residenev
would have been obliged to surrender. There were al.so taken by him into this Resident v
rice, and sugar, and charcoal, and fodder for the oxen, and hay for the horses. Hut now,
at the time when all the people were looking to him for wisdom and courage. Sir Henry i>
f
263
Sinai US of a
ill, but tlK-n
iticiUs (lied,
not recowr
chlorofcjnn.
tlier circuni-
I)r. Fabler's
This upper
lander, was
that he had
in tlie same
was carried
ce had been
service lor
as Bombay,
lonld not be
the sie,<^e of
Residency
s Residcncv
Hut now,
ir Henry i.->
THE WORLD AS SEEN TO-I)AV.
dyin,q;." Our escort describes the scene, nnicjUe, lender, beautiful a
while I stood on the very spot where the si.s^hs and j^roans ul' the boiej^ed, and lacerated.
1 broken-hearted met the whiz of bullets, and the demoniac Iiiss of burstiu"- shell, and
d
)Verpowerni^S ai
id
an(
)i
batteries,
" As soon as Sir
chaplain to administer to him
the holy communion. He felt
particularly anxious for the
safety of the women in the
Residency who, at any moment,
inii^ht be subjected to the sav-
ages who liowled around the
ResidencN', their breakinj^ in
only a matter of time, unless
reinforcements should come.
He would frccpiently say to
those who surrounded his death
couch, ' Save the ladies. ("lod
hel]) the poor women and chil-
dren ! ' He .i^ave directions for
the desperate defence of the
place. He asked fors^iveness
of all those whom he nii,^ht
unintentionally liave neo;lected
or ofTended. He left a inessa<i;e
for all his friends. He forgot
not to <f^iye direction for the
care of his favorite horse. He
cliarq;ed the officers, .sayin<j^,
' By no means surrender. Make
no treaty or compromise with
the desperadoes. Die fightino;.'
He took charge of the asylum
he had established for the
children of soldiers. He gave
directions for his burial, say-
iiii;-, ' No nonsense, no fuss.
Let nie be buried with the
men.' He dictated his own
e])itaph, which I read above
escort ga\'e me the jxrrticnlars.
irv was told that he had not nianv hours to live he. asked the
THE .SIGX.\TURi:s OI' THIC FOfR GRK.^T LIVING HHROKS OF LCCKN'OW.
I obtained llicse si.iiiiaturcs at the taliU' uf OeiuTal Sir Iltiiry y\. HavelDck. in the
United Service Chib, London, wliere he had invited these Oenerals to meet ine.
liis tomb . ' Here lies Henry
Lawrence, who tried to do his duty. ]\Lay the Lord have mercy on his soul.' He said, ' I
would like to have a pa.s.sage of Scripture added to the words on my grave, such as : "To
tile Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against him " —
isn't it from Daniel?' So as brave a man as England or India ever saw expired. The
soldiers lifted the cover from his face and kissed him before they carried him out. The
chaplain offered a prayer. Then they removed the great hero amid the rattling hail of the
264
TPIE EARTH GIRDLED.
KHiis and put liiiu down anion- other soldiers buried at tlic same time " All of wliicli I
state for the benefit of those who would have us believe tliat the Christian reli-ioii is f„
only for women in the eiohties and children uiuler seven. There was oU.rv enou-vl, i„ il,.u
dei)arture to halo Christendom. '^
V -1 " Tl'n''''u ;T,"'\ ""' "'T'"'' " ' ^''"'^ ''" ^'''^'' ' ^''^' ^''^ ^^•"•■'^•" " ^Vho was ' I!ob the
i\a, er.^ Oh he was the Atriean who sat at tliat point, and when anvone of our men
ventured across the road he wouhl dn.p Iiim b>- a rifle ball. liob was a sure marksman
1 lie only wav to oct across the roa.l for water from the well was t,. wait until his lhui flaslu.i
and then instantly cross before he had time to load. The oiilv wa^• we could -et ri<l of'hiu,
was n- 'l,.i,.in^- a mine under the house where he was hi.lden.' When the house was blown
up JJob the Nader 'went with it." I said to him, " Had you made up your minds what
PR.WKRs nv rHiv WAvsinK,
you and the other sufferers would do in case the fiends actuallv broke in'" "Oh ves "
.said my escort, "we had it all ]ilaniied, for the probabilitv was'everv liour for nearlv fi\v
nionths that thev would break in. Von must remember it was 1600 aoainst 6n,ooo. and fn,
tile latter part ot the tune it was 900 a-ainst 60,000, and the Rcsidencv and the earthwork^
around it were not put up for such an attack. It was onh- from' the iiiercv of O,,,!
that we were not massac-e.l soon after the 1)esie,o;emeiit. We were resolved not to allo^^
ourselves to -et into the hands of those desperadoes. Von must remember that we and all tin
women had lieanl of the biucherv at Cawnpore, and we knew what defeat meant. If uiialm
to hold out any ,011-er we would have blown ourselves up, and all oone out of life tooetlier "'
'Sh
ow
aw
ful
me," I said, " the rooms wl
nioutlb
Then we crossed over and
ere the women and children staid d
uriii"- tliosi
^•eiit d(Avii into the cellar of the Resid
eiicv.
Tin- WORLD AS SHl<;x T()-I)AV
2(r5
With ;i shudder (,f ]i,.rror iiukscrihahlc I cuteivd Uk- cdlar> wliuv h22 wniiKii and cliildivu
liad been crowded until tiie whole lloor was full. I know the exact uunil.er. f,,r I eouule<l
then- names on the roll. .\s one of the ladies wrote in her <liarv— .M.eakino ..f thesi' women
she >aid : "Thcv ' .,.,,.. ■ >
aad ot
ay upon the floor fittin- into each other like hits in a imzzle." Wives
.l)tanied from their husbands the im.niise that the hn>bands would sh.H,t tluni rather
thau let thcMn fall inU, the hands of these desperadoes. The women within the Resideucv
were kept on the smallest allowance that would maintai 'ife. Xo o])portuuitv of privacv
The dcath-an-el and the birth-angvl touched wings as they passed. Flies, moscniitues, ver-
min in full posscs-
siiiU of the place,
and these women in
momentary e\i)ecta-
li(iu that the en-
raged savages would
rush upon them, in
a violence of which
club, and sword, and
torch, and throat-
cutting would be
the milder forms.
Our escort told
lis again and again
of the bravery of
these women. They
(lid not despair.
They encouraged
the soldiery. They
waited on the
wounded and d\infr
ill the hospital.
They gave up their
stockings for hold-
ers of the grape-
shot. They .solaced
each other w hen
their children died.
When a husband or
father fell such
prayers of sympathy
were offered as only women can offer. They endured without complaint. They prepared
their own children for liurial. They were inspiration for the men who .stood at their p„,sts
fighting until they dropped.
Onr escort told ns that again and again news had come that Havelock and Otitram were
on the w-ay to fetch these besieged ones out of their wretchedness. Thev had received a
jlier from Havelock rolled up in a quill and carried in the month of ad
Hixnoo i'uii;sT at his niivoTroxs
tell
ing them he was on the wav, but the next
isguised me.ssenirer.
news was that Havelock had been compelled
to retreat. It was constant vacillation between hope and despair. P,ut one day they heard
266
TPiK EARTH GIRDLED.
tlif j^uns of relief souiKliii),^ neaivr ami nearer. Vet all the houses ot' Lucknow were
fortresses tilled with armed miscreants, and every step of Haveloek and his army was con-
tested, — firinjr from lionsetojis ; firiiis;- from windows; firin.^ from doorways.
I asked our friend if he lhou,trht that the world-famous story of a Scotch lass in her
delirium hearinjj; the Scotch ha.y^pipes advancinjj; with the .Scotch re,ij;; iient, wasa true stor\ .
Me said he did not know but that it was true. Without this man's telling me I knew from
my own observation that delirium sometimes quickens some of the faculties, and I ratlur
think the Scotch lass in her delirium was the first to hear the bat^pipes. I decline to believe
that class of peoi)le who would like to kill all the poetry of the world and banish all tlu
fine sentiment. They tell us that Whittier's poem about IJarbara Freitchie was founded on
a delusion, and that Lon.<,'fellow's poems innnortalized thin<;s that never occurred. The
Scotch lass did hear the sloj^an. I almost heard it myself as I stood inside the Residcnc\
while my escort told of the coming on of the Seventy-eighth Highland Regiment. " Were
you present wlier Haveloek came in?" I asked, for I could suppress the question no louf^er.
His answer came : " I was not at the moment present, but with some other young fellows I
saw soldiers dancing while two Highland pipers played, and I .said, ' What is all this excite-
ment about? ' Then we came up and saw that Haveloek was in, and Outram wa.-; in, and
the regiments were pouring in."
" ohow us where they came in ! " I exclaimed, for I knew that they did not enter
through the gate of the Residency, that being banked up inside to keep the murderers out.
" Here it is," answered my escort. " Here it i.s — the embrasure through which they came."
We walked up to the spot. It is now a broken-down pile of bricks a dozen yards from
the gate. Long grass now, but then a blood-spattered, bullet-scarred opening in the wall.
As we stood there, although the scene was thirty-seven years ago, I saw them come in ;
Haveloek, pale and sick, but triumphant; and Outram, whom all the equestrian statues in
Calcutta and Europe cannot too grandlj- present.
" WHiat then happened ? " I said to my escort. " Oh," he said, " that is impo.ssible to
tell. The earth was removed from the gate and soon all the army of relief entered, and
some of us laughed, and some cried, and some prayed, and some danced. Highlanders so
dust-covered and enough blood and wounds on their faces to make them unrecognizable,
snatched the babes out of their mothers' arms and kis.sed them, and pa.ssed the babies alon^;
for other soldiers to kiss, and the wounded men crawled out of the hospital to join in tlie
cheering, and it was wild jubilee, until, the first excitement passed, the story of how manv
of the advancing army had been .slain on the way began to have tearful effect, andthestorv
of suffering that had been endured inside the fort, and the announcement to children that
they were fatherless, and to wives that they were widows, submerged the shouts of joy with
wailing of agony."
" But were you not embarrassed by the arrival of Haveloek and 1400 men who brouglit
no food with them ? " He answered, " Of course, we were put on smaller rations innneili-
ately in order that they might share with us, but we knew that the coming of this reinforcr-
ment would help us to hold the place until further relief should come. Had not this fii-t
relief arrived as it did, in a day or two at most, and perhaps in any hour, the besiegers
would have broken in, and our end would have come. The Sepoys had dug six mints
under the Residency and would soon have exploded all."
After wc had obtained a few bullets that had been picked out of the wall, and a piece
of a bomb-shell, we walked around the eloquent ruins, and put our hands into the scars nf
the shattered ma.sonry, and explored the cemetery inside the fort, where hundreds of tlic
,iickno\v wc'R'
;iniiy was cmi-
tcli lass in licr
as a tnic stor\ .
e I kiiL-w frciii
;, and I latlur
'line tobelifvi
banish all tin
■as founded on
ccnrred. The
the Residcncv
iient. " \\\re
ion no longer,
onnj,^ fellows I
all this excite-
m was in, ami
did not enter
nurderersoul.
Ii they came."
:en yards from
in the wall,
hem come in ;
rian statues in
impossible to
f entered, and
jghlauders so
iirecognizable,
e babies alon^;
to join in tlic
of how manv
, and thcstorv
children tliat
its of joy with
who brouplit
.tions innncdi-
this reinforcr-
1 not this fir-t
the besie,t;(.'i--
dug six miiu>
11, and a piece
D the scars nf
ndreds of the
THE WORM AS SHKX TO-DAV.
:(
dead soldiers await the o.miiig „( the Lord of Ho>ts at the ].a>l Dav, and ue could eiuluiv
no m.-re. ^n■ nerves were all a-tremble, and m> emotions were wrun- out, and I s-.id
" Ut us go." I had seen the Re>i<lency at Lnckuow the dav before with a beloved mis.ion-
arv, an.l he toal me manv interesting i%cts concerning the be.siegement of that place but
this morning I had seen it in eompanv with one wlio in that awful IS^7 of the In' Ii ui
Mutiny Willi his own fire had fought the besiegers, and witli his own ears li.'ul jieanl the veil
ul the miscreants as thev tried to .storm tiie walls, and with his own eves had witiie-ed a
scene oi pang, and .sacrifice, and endunuice, ami bereavement, and linnvess and rescue
which has made all this I.nckiiow fortress and its surroundings the Mount Calvarv of the
nineteenth centnr\ .
NKPALESK nUNKRALS AND CHINESK EMHA.SSV.
ciiAi'Ti';k x.wiii.
ANOTHER WO!: IS PAST.
•^^ — » E wlio visits tlic Rcsiduicy in tliis city and tlien departs lias n,.t seen Lnckmnv
Y^\ »t)r learned more than half of its Iliad of woes. Havelock and Ontrani went inl,',
X { ^'"■' J'^^'-^i'l'-'"cy Sei.tt'nil)er 21, but it was not nntil tlie ni(,nnw that the wounded
^^ y* of their army started to make entrance. There were a host of broken arms aiul
amputated limbs, and fractured jaws in Havelock's army to be looked after. Fort\- doolies
or litters, containing as many officers were beinj^ carried. The order was -iven that s,,iik"
one who knew the locality well sliould lead the n'utilated andj-roanin^ procession. A .Mi
Thonihill thou.uht he knew, and offered his service, but he made a mistakr, and, instead' m
leadin- the hospital procession where it would be comparativelv safe, he 'ed it into thJverv
jaws of destruction. The men who carried the doolies wer.' themselves wounded or friirlit-
ened, and dropped their burden and fled, and the Sepoys came in with baronets, and knives
and clubs and cut, and stabbed, and dashed to death the helpless Kuropean soldiers, sa\e thr
man in the front dooly, who was rushed throujrh in
safety. He was Lieutenant Havelock, the sou of tlie
Sreat commander. These m mded men besj^^-d their
comrades to shoot them before they fell into the hands of
the Sepoy,s. Some of the <,nuird who were takiii<,r these men
to the Residency performed deeds of daring such r,s have
not been eclipsed in any war since the first sword was
brandished. Three or four men in a room would keep
at bay hour after hour as many liundred Sepovs. It was
all the way a track of blood and a burst of intrejjidity.
We pass along this road of immortal achievemeiil,-
and come to the place where Havelock died, after atteiiiia-
ing to do what no one else ever tried to do, and accom-
plishing it, namely, with 1400 men fighting his w;t\
through 100,000 infuriated brutes. It was too much for
his physical endurance, after all that he had gone thron,y!i
in his experience of many wars, and tlie hero lay dyingln
a tent, his wounded son reading to him the consolatorv
Scriptures. The telegraph wires told all nations that Havelock was dving. He had recei w.i
a uiessage ol congratulation from the Queen, and had been knighted, and such a reception
as England never gave to any man since Wellington came back from Waterloo, awaited Ids
return. But he will never again see his native land. He has led on his last armv, and
planned his last battle, but he is to gain another victory. He declared it when in his ! ,-t
hours he said to (kneral Outrani. " I die happ>- and contented. 1 have for fortv vear> -o
ruled m>- life that when death came I might face it without fear. ' To die is gain ' " Ik-
said to Ins sons, ■' My sons, see how a Christian can die." Indeed, this was no new sentinu -it
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SIR HF.N-RV II.Wia.OCK.
THH WORLD AS SIll'X T()-I).\Y.
2A0
,tii
w .sentiiiK nt
mil. He oiicf staUd that in hovlinod witli iMur cdiiipaiiioiis lie was aecii-loimd
M seek the seeliision of one of tile (loriiiitories lur i.m|)(.ses of devotion, ihou-h eel lain in
I his of heiii- hraiided as Methodists and eantin- h\ poeiites. He Iiad heen inuiKi^ed in a
Ilaptist cluiieli. He aekiiowled^ed Cod in eveiv vielorv , and sa\> in one of hi- .1
. li>l'atehes
laal lie owes it "to the power of the ICnfield rille in i'.ritish hands, to I'.ritidi j.lnek, and to
the hlcssintr of Almighty Cod on a most ri-hteons eanse." He was aceiistonied when on
the march to >ake two hours for jirayer and rcadin.^ of the .Seripture.s cvcrv morning. If he
>tarted at si.\ o'eloek, he rose at four ; if he started at seven, he rose at I'lvJ for his d'exotioiis.
H. K. Till' VICEROY'S ELEPHANTS
We rode ont to see his ^n-ave, about three miles from I.ncknow. A plain momimcnt
marks the place, but the epitaph is as beantifnl and com]M-ehensive as anvthin- I have ever
seen, and I copied it then and there. It is as follows :
" Here rests the mortal remains of Henry Havelock, .Major-General in the Hriti.sh Armv
and kmaht Commander of the Hath, who died at Dilkhoosha, Lncknow, of dvsenterv pro-
duced by the hardships of a campaign in which he achieve.] an immortal fame, on tlie'2|th
.November, 1857. He was born on the ^tli of April, 1795, at IJishopwearmouth, Coiintv
Durham, England. Entered the armv 1815. Came to India 1S23, and served there with
1-ttle mterrnption till his death. He bore an honoralde part in the wars of Bnrinah
270
Till- KARTH (HRDLHI).
Al-hauisi.ni, tlu- Maliic'tla raiupai-ii ..f 1S4,, and tlk' Siitli- nl iSp^-f,. keUmlc.l !,■
adverse circiiiiistaiitxs in a Mil.crdiiiatr [...sitioii, it xva> tlic aim ..r'liis life to sliou
that tlic prorLssiun „| a Christian i> o.iisistciu witli tlir Inilcst .lischar-f of the dulies of „
suhhir.
"IKcnmiiiaiidc(ladivisi,,u i,, iIr' 1 VisiainxpLditioii ..f iS^^^. In the tenil)!e o.mvuImoii
(-f tliat year Ins -eninsand charaeter were at lennlh inilv developed and kn..\vn t..tlie uorM
Save.l troni shipwreek on tlic Ce>l..n coast hv that I'mvidence wliieh desiund liini i.„
greater thni^-s, he was nominated to he the Commander of tlie eoinnin destined to reliev.
the hvave -avrison of Lncknow. This object, after ahnost snperhuman exertion, lie bv tlu
blessui-oi (iod accomplished. lint he was not spared to receive on earth the reward s,,
truly earned. The Divine .Master whom lie served .saw fit to remove Iiim from the spluiv
ot his labor in the moment of his -reate.st trium])]!. He departed to his rest in humble but
conhdeiit expectation of far <rreater rewards and honors which a -ratefnl counlr\- w,i>
anxious to bestow. In him the skill of a comniander, the coiira^a. a,,,] (k-votion of a .soldier
the learnm- of a scholar, the -race of a hi-hly bred -eiitleman, and all the social and'
domestic virtues ol a husband, father and friend were blended together and strengthened
liarnionized and .idoriied by the .sinrit of a true Christian, tlie result of the innuenc'e of the
Holy Spirit on his heart, and of a humble reliance on the merits of a crucified Saviour
2 Tniiothv iv. : 7tli and 8tli verses: M have fou^'ht a k<'«'<1 fiRht, I have finished iiiv
course, I have kept the faith : Henceforth there is laid u]) for me a crown of riKditeousnes^
which the Lord, the ri-hteous jud-e, shall -ive nic at that dav : and not to me oiilv but
unto all them also that love his appearing.' This inunuinent is erected bv his surruwin-
widow and faiiiil\-." ' ''
lint I said to-day, while staiidiucr at Havclock's p^rave, "Whv docs not Kugland take
Ills dust to herself, and in Westminster Abbey make him a pillow? " In all herliLstory of
wars there is no name more inagnetic, yet .she has expressed nothing' on this man's tomb
His widow reared this monument. Do you say, " I.ct him sleep in the region where he
did his i/.uckiest deeds ?" The same reason would have buried Wellin-ton in Belgium, and
Von Moltke at Versailles, and Grant at Vicksburg, and Stonewall Jackson far awax" fn.ii'i his
beloved Lexington, Virginia. Take him home to Kngland— the rescuer of the men, xvaiuu
and children of Lucknow. Though his ear now dulled could not b.car the roll of tlie nrgau
when it .sounds through the venerable Abbey the national anthem, it would hear the s;mie
trumpet that brings up from among tho.sc sacred walls the form of Outram, his fellow-hero
ill the overthrow of the Indian mutiny. Let Parliament make appropriation fn.iii the
National Treasury, and .some great wanship, under some favorite admiral, sail across the
:\Ie(literraiieaii and Arabian .seas, and wait at liombay harbor for the coming of the du.st of
tins conqueror of conquerors, and then let it be .saluted by the shipping of all free nations.
Let him come under the arches and along the aisles where nave been carried the mightiest
dead of iiiauv centuries. What a speech that was which Ilavclock made to his soldiers as lie
started for Cawiipore : "Over two hniulred of our friends are still alive in Cawnporc. With
Cod's help we will .save tluiii. 1 uii trviiig you severely, my men, but I know what \(.ii
are made of." " Hands up for Liiekuow ! " cried Havelock to his .soldiers. Then he said,
" It is too dark for me to .see your hands." Then the soldiers gave a cheer, and he rejilied,
"Ah, you are what I thought von were, liritons!" The eiithiLsiasm of his men was well
suggested by the .soldier who luul been King asleep, and, Haxclock riding .-dong, hishor-.-
stumliled on the .soldier and aw .ke lii'n. and the soldier recognizing him, cried oiit' chceril-. ■
" Make room for the (ieneral : ( 1; ,ess the Ceiieial."
Till' WORLD AS SHl'X TO-DAY.
271
r.cluiv 1 ;;u liack to llif huckiiow liolel li)-(l;iy \vi' imi>l liikf a liilf of ah.nil Unir iiiiks
and sec tlic stinniRT j^ankii called ScciiiuKt Ila^ii, llie placi' where llie Iliiiddn and Moliam-
iiiedaii wretclies made a slatid ayaiiist Sir Colin Caniphell, wlio was coming for tlic second
relief of I.ucknow, for tlie relief of Ilavclock and Otitrani, as well as the imprisoned
i^arrison. Two thonsand of the Indians were enclosed within the j^ardeii, with a wall some
t\veul\' feet hi^h. Sir Colin Caniphell, after his nun hail niadi' an opening; in the wall. >,iid,
" Do yon think that opeiiinjr is larj^e enon;;h ? "' and a private 1)\ the name of I,ee, the \erv
man who was tellinjj; me ahont it, his sa\ in;; liavin;^ jjjoiie into the records, crieil ont : " Sir
Colin, let ns cliarjL;e upon them, and if the hole in the wall is not larj^e enonj^h, \se will
make it Iar<;e enonj^h with onr l)ayonets." And .Sir Colin commanded, " Char;,'e I " The
I'airopeans made the cluuj,'e and the two tlionsund fiends were then and there pnt to death.
With a rcvolvin;,^ pistol one ICnnlishman shot ten ,Sepoys. The scoundrels, fnidinj; they
were snrroniuled, threw awa\- their arms, and, lifting; their hands, pra\ ed for mercy. Those
atlemptin.tj; to escape were overtaken and slain.
I have Iieard .Sir Colin and his men severely criticised for this wholesale >lan).,diler,
and 1 have heard othens praise it. Tliere can l)e no douht,
however, that that awfnl annihilation broke the back of the
nnitiny. The Indians fonnd that the Knropeans coidd play
at the same ;janic of slaiif,diter which the .\siatics liad started.
The plot was or^ijanized for the nuirder of all the Ivnropeans
in India. The work had been be;,Min in .dl directions on an
appallin<f scale, and the commanders of the luij^lish anny
made np their minds that this w is the best wav to stop it.
The fact is, that war, in rdi 'iunims.ances, is barbarism. It
is mnrder nationalized. W oc be to those who start it I A
mild and gentle war with the Sepoy.s was most certainly an
impossibility. The natives of India are crnel and bloodthirsty.
They ever and anon demonstrate it. The Black Hole of
Calcnlta was only the natnral i)redecessor of Lncknow atioci-
ties. I stood a lew day.s a}j;o on the ver>- spot in Calcnlta
where the natives of India in 1756 enacted that ^cene
which no ^ her people on earth conld have enacted. The
Black Hole ])rison has been torn down, but a stone pave-
ment, twenty feel by twenty, indicates the <rronnd covered by the jirison. The bnildin^j
had two small windows and was intended for two or three ])ersons. These natives of India
crowded into that one room of twenty feet by twent; feet, one hnndred and forty-si.x
lun'opeans. The midsnmmer heat, the stench, the sniTocation, the trami)lin,s,r of one ni)on
another, the i^oin.^- insane by .some, the <;roanin,<;, and shriekin^, and be.s^i^in",^ .md praying of
all, are matters of history. The Sejioys in the meanwhile held li,iL;lits to the small windows
and mocked the snfTerers. Then all the sounds ceased. That ni,<,dit of June 20, 1 756, jiassed,
.md one hnndred and twenty-three corpst^s were taken ont. Only twenty-three peoi)le (mt
of the one hnndred and fort\-six were alive, and they had to be jndled onl from under the
corpses. Mrs. Carey, who survived, was taken l)y an Indian nabob into his harem and kept
a prisoner for six years. Lncknow in 1S57 was only an echo of Calcutta in 1756. I)urinj>;
the mutiny of which I have been writing, uati\-es who h id Itecn in the service of Kiiroiicans,
and well treated liy them, and with no cause of offence, would, at the call of the nmtineers, and
without compunction, stab to death the father and mother of the household and dash out the
SIU COI.IN CAMl'llia.I..
272
THE EARTH (GIRDLED.
brains of tlie cliildrcu. Tliis cruelty is a natural result of cruel cust
tlin)\vin,<r of children to the cmcodi:
es in
tlie(
onis for centuries. T'
of husbands (this couiiu.t,^ from the fact that wid
xan.oes, the leajjini^r of widows on the funeral ]
)\re
poisoned their husbands, and hence to 1
ows were supposed in many cases to lia\<
must bv custc
111 burn would be a hindrance to her
esseii that evil the funeral i)yre upon which the woiii;
ol (
levotees ou iron liooks, the self-tortures of the I'ak
coinmissiou of the criuu), t!
irs,
th
le rolliu'r o
in
le swiut^m-
over Its victnus, the 1)nital treatment of fcmak
f tiu
or\- jn<'<'ernant
eatmcut of females, amoii,t,r other tliin.<,rs allowimr the hushauo
It lie liad not a male descendant, to cast off one wife and take another ; and the law of
caste, which is a cast-iron law-all these thiiios -oin.tj on for thousands of vears have madr
the native population of India so uufeeliiijr ami luud, that iiothiiur can be harder. That
H PiMI^IMIMI will III ( ^
A iTiN-nnn r,rRr,s' schooi^.
N.ntiv.s of I,„lia arc- nut .,, bcM.t.c-.l with fa.talids,,. as thvy were lUty years aRO, an,I tlieir proRross is very rat.i.l lulucati.,,,
of l..,.r.i,.,„ k,„»le,lne .l,ro„Kl, tl,e latl^uaKes „tulerstoo,I by the n.asses. Nont.al sch„„ls for ll,e training , f teacher. h,,v,
ee,, e.t .l,hshe,i. a,„I Kr,at ,,tte,u,„„ „ „„w l,e,„g paij to the e,h,catiu„ of fe.nahs, wh.il, was wholly ,K,.lecte,l helore
liillesl tuleralioii m matters of faith is eiijoyeil. ' "eioie,
llioaKli
any of these fires have been extinjrnished, or any of these knives dulled, or anv of these
wheels halted, is not to be ascribed to any accession of kindness in tlie hearts of tliesr
natives ; but, under (^od, to the luij^dish Government. These natives are at peace now, bin
Kive them a chance and they will re-enact the scenes of 1756 and 1857. Tliev look ni>oii
the En-lish as coiupierors and tlicmselves as coiuiuered. The mutiuv of 18^57 oceunvl
because the Hriti
Tovernnient was too lenient, and put in places of trust and i
n comiiiaini
THK WORLD AS vSHKX TO-I)AY
of forts too inaiiy of the luitivcs. I call upon ICn.^land to stop Uw present attempt to p
cate tlie natives by allowin-;- tlu-ni to coniniand f.)rts and liold autlioritv . Ju>i
as it is continued there will he more Iron!
Asiatics can be kept from another mutinv is to jiut them (.nt
I am no alarmi>t, hut the
ot power.
a-
as certaniK
)nl\ wa\ thai tliese
)f the British C.overnment in India is clian<'ed, the I. nek
r
nless the p(ilic\'
mar
tyrdoms, over wiiich the hemis])heres 1
o\v, and Cawnpore, and Delhi
lav
e wept, will he eclipsed l)\- the Ltickiiow, and
Cawnpore, and Delhi martydoms yet to he enacted.
I speak from what I have .seen and heard. I j-ive the opinion of everv intelligent h'.u^-
lisliman, and Irishman, and Scotchman, and .\nierican I have met in India. Trevention ?s
better than cure. I do not .say it is better that hai-land rule India. I sa\ nothing a-ainst
the ri.t^ht of India to rule herself. P.ut I do say that the moment the native ])opu?ation of
thrs land think there is a jtossibility of drivino- back I'airopeans from India. the\ will
make the attempt, and that they have encm.^h cruelties for the time sui)pressed wliiehi if let
loose, would submerge with carn;i.^e everythin.o- from Calcutta to Ilombav, and from the
Ilimalavas to the coast of Coromandel.
\)U\. IvUicatiou
tuaclRr> Iia\t
liflorc, the. null
When I arrived in London cm my return homeward, (leneral Sir IIenr\ M. Ilavelock, the
son of the I.ucknow connnander, invited me to meet at a banquet at the I'nited Service
Club, the three .greatest of the remaininjr heroes of the war in India, C.eneral Dod-son,
C.eueral Sir William Olphcrts and C.eneral Sir .McLeod Inues. What a time of ren?ini>-
cencc it was to hear those four heroes talk over the incidents of the bloodiest stru.^.^k in .all
history! Sir Henry Havclock said tome: "My father knew not what fearTas. He
would .say to me as he came out of his tent in tiie morning: ' Harry, have vou read the
ISook ?' ' Ves.' ' Have you said your jirayers?' ' Yes.' ' Have you had vour breakfast ?'
' Ves.' ' Come, then, and let ns mount, and o;o out to he shot at, and die like "entlenien. ' "
CHAPTKR XXIX.
CITY OF BLOOD.
G WO hours and ten mimites after its occurrence, Joseph Lee, of the vSliropshirL-
Regiment of Foot, rode in upon the Cawnpore massacre. I wanted to hear thi
story from some one who had been there in 1857, and with his own eyes gazed
upon tlie slaughtered heaps of humanity. I could hardly wait until the hursts
were put to the carriage, and Mr. Lee, seated with ns, started for the scene, the storj- of
which makes tame in contrast all Modoc and Choctaw butcheries.
It seems that all the worst passions of the century were to be impersonated by one man,
and he, Nana Sahib, and our escort at Cawnpore, Joseph Lee, knew the man personalh.
Unfortunately, there is no correct picture of Xana vSahibin existence. The pictures of hin:
published in the books of Kurope and America, and familiar to ns all, £ire an annisiuL'
mistake. This is the fact in regard to them : A lawyer of England was called to India
for the purpose of defending the case of a native who had been charged with fraud. The
attorney came and so skillfully managed the case of his client that the client paid him
enormously for his services, and he went back to England, taking with him a picture of his
Indian client. After a while the mutiny in India broke out, and Xana Sahib was mentioned
as the champion villain of the whole affair, and the newspapers of England wanted a pic-
ture of him, and to interview .some one on Indian affairs who had recentlv been in India.
Among others, the journalists called upon this lawyer, recently returned. The only picture-
he had brought from India was a picture of his client, the man charged with fraud. Tlu-
attorney gave this picture to the journalists as a specimen of the way the Hindoos dres.s, and
forthwith that picture was used, either by mistake or intentionally, for N wia Sahib. The
English lawyer said that he lived in dread that his client would some dav .see the use made
of liis picture, and it was not until the death of his Hindoo client that the lawyer divulged
the facts. Perhaps it was never intended that the face of such a demon .should be preserved
among lunnan records. I said to our escort : " I\Ir. Lee, was there any peculiarity in Nana
Sahib's appearance?" The reply was: "Nothing very peculiar; he was a dull, lazv,
cowardly, sensual man. brought up to do nothing, and wanted to continue on the same scale
to do nothing." From what Mr. Lee told me, and from all I could learn in India, Xana
Sahib ordered tlie massacre in that city from sheer revenge. His father abdicated the
throne, and the English ])aid him annually a ])ension of $400,000. When the father dinl
the English (iovernnient declined to pay the same pension to the son, Xana Sahib, but llie
poor fellow was not in any .suffering from lack of fund.s. His father left him $(So,ooo in
gold ornaments ; $500,000 in jewels ; «Soo,ooo in bonds, and other resources amounting to
at least $1,500,000. I5ut the poor young man was not satisfied, and the Cawnpore ma.s.s;ure
was his revenge. General Wheeler, the Englishman who had command of this citv,
altlumgh often warned, could not .see that the Sepoys were planning for his destruction and
that of all his regiments and all the Eurojieans in Cawnpore.
■ Sliropsliia-
to hear tin.
1 eyes <;azc(l
il the hursfs
:he story of
by one man,
1 personally.
:ure,s of hin:
:iii aimisiii,;.'
led to India
fratid. The
nt paid him
cttire of hi.s
5 mentioned
'anted a ])ic-
?n in India,
jnly picture
rand. The
)s dres.s, and
lahib. The
e nse made
er divnl,i;e(l
K preserved
ity in Nana
(Inll, lazv,
e .same scale
[ndia, Nana
dicated the
father died
[lib, l)nl the
I $<So,oo() ill
nonntinii tt)
re ma.ssaeve
this citN,
rnction and
ULSMJUL
N.\N.\ SAHU).
(2751
276
THE EARTH GIRDLED.
-Mr. L(jc- explained all this to nic hy the tact tliat (k-iieral WIk-lIct liad inarriwl a iiativL.
and he naturally took her story and thonijht there was no peril. Ihit the time for the ]inn-
laniation of Xana Sahib liad .)Uic, and sucli a document went forth as never before ha.!
seen the li.^ht of day. I .irive only an extract :
"As by tlie kindness of (iod and tlie i^ood fortune of the Ivmperor, all the Christian^
wlio were at Delhi, Poonali, Sattara, and other places, and even those 5000 bauopian
soldiers who went in di.sjrnise into the former city and Avere discovered and .sent to hell 1)\
tlie pious and sa<racious troops, wlio are firm to their reli,t,n'on, and as they have all \k-vu
conquered by the ])resent .government, and as no trace of them is left in these places, it i> tlu
dnt\- of all the subjects and servants of the ,^o\-ernmcnt to rejoice at thedelij^htful intellii^ence
and carry on their respective work witli conUort and ease. As b\- tlie bounty of tlie <;lorious
Almi<^ht>- and the enemy-destroyin.>,r fortuiu of the Kniperor, the yellow-faced and narrow-
minded people have l)een .sent to hell, and Cawnpore has been conquered, it is nece,ssar\- that
all the subjects and land-ownei , and <(overnment servants should be as obedient to the
present jrovernmeut as they liave been to the former one ; that it is the incumbent duty of all
the peasants and landed proprietors of every district to rejoice at the thon<,dit that the Chris-
tians have been .sent to hell, and both the Hindoo and .Mohammedan relioions lia\e been
confirmed, aud that they should, as usual, be obedient to the authorities of the <^overnnieut,
and never suffer any com])laiut aji^ainst themselves to reach the ears of the hi<>lier aulhoritv."
".Air. Lee, wliat is this?" I said to our escort as the carria<>e halted by an embankiiiem.
" Plere," he .said, " is the intrencliment where the Christians of Cav/iqiore took refu.i>e." It
is the remains of a wall which, at the time of the mutiny, was only four feet hi,i;!i, behind
which, with no .slicker from the sun, the heat at 130 decrees, four hundred and fort\- men
and five hundred and sixty wuiiien and children dwelt nearly a month. .\ handful of flour
and split peas was the daily ratio!i, and only two wells nearby, the one in which thev
buried their dead, because they had no time to 1)ury them in the earth, and the other well,
tlie focus on which the artillery of the enemy played, .so that it was a clioice between death
by thirst and death by bullet or .shell. Ten thou.sand ye]lin,(,r Hindoos outside this frail wall,
and 1000 sufTerin,o;, dyiiio: people inside. In addition to the army of the Hindoos and
Mo.slems, an invinble army of sickness swooped upon them. Some went ravino- mad nndir
cxpostire; others dropped under apoplexy. .A starvin*,', mutilated, fevered, sunstrtick,
•ghastly sroup, waitinn^ to die. Why did not the heathen da.sh down those mud walls and tlie
10,000 annihilate the now less than 1000? It was becan.se they seemed superiiaturallv
defended."
Nana Sahib resolved to celebrate an anniversary. The twenty-third of June, 1S57, would
be one hundred years since the battle of Pla.ssy, wdien, und'?r Lord Clive, India surreiulered to
En.>,dand. That day the last 'Kuropean in Cawnpore was to be slau.^htered. Other anni-
versaries have been celebrated with wine, this was to be celebrated with blood. Other anni-
versaries have been adorned with garlands ; this with drawn swords. Others have been
kept with .songs ; this with execrations. Others with the dance of the gay ; this with tlu
dance of death. The infantry and cavalry and artillery of Xana Sahib made on that da\- one
grand assault, but the few guns of ttie English and Scotch put to flight these Hindoo tigers.
The courage of fiends broke again,st that mud v/all as the waves of the sea against a light-
hon.se. The caval-y horses rettirned full run, without their riders. The Lord looked out
from the heavens, and on that anniversarv dav gave tjie victory to his people.
Therefore Xana Sahib must try .some other plan. Standing in a field nor far from thi'
intrenchihcnt of the FIngli.sh was a native Christian woman, Jacobee by name, holding high
(-■(1 a ua
)r t!u- ]
■ Clirisl
t to IkH
,ve all 1)
:cs, it i>
n tfl I i !:;(.■
he i^lov
:k1 nan
:essaiy
lent to
duty (1
^ tlic CI
have 1:
jvcniiu
;uithoi-i
baiikin
i^li, bch
f()rt\- 111
'til of fl
•liicli tl
Jthcr \v(
,vec:i (le;
; frail w,
ncloos
tiiad tin
snnstnic
lis and
'rnatnra
t;\-L,
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laii--
'(.aii
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nci.
mils
thai
I all
iris-
icen
ent,
t\-."
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in
our
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nil
nil I
(li-r
tlic
won Id
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LMideied
•ther an
)t]ieran
have he
s with
at day on
loo ti<;er^
St a lin
coked (
111-
iii-
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mt
• from tiu'
din<>- hitrli
lis "'I
278
THE EARTH GH^DLED.
up in iicr Iiand a letter. It was evidently a comiminication from the eneni}-, and General
Wheeler ordered the woman broujrht in. She handed him a proposed treatv.' If Cieneral
Wheeler and his men wonld jrivc up their weapons, Nana Sahib would conduct them into
safety; they could march out unmolested, the men, women, and children ; they could j^o
down to-morrow to the Gau'^es, where they would find boats to take them in peace U)
Allahabad.
There was some opposition to si^minj.. this treaty, but General Wheeler's wife told him
he could trust the natives and so he signed the treaty. There was great jov in the intreuch-
ment that night. Without molestation they went out and got plentv of water to drink, and
water for a good wash. The hunger and thirst and exposure from the consuming sun, with
the ll ermometer from 120 to 140, would cease. Mothers rejoiced at the prospect of saviuo
their children. The young ladies of the intrenchment wonld escape the wild beasts in
liuman form. On the morrow, true to the promise, carts were ready to transport tho; c who
were too much exhausted to walk.
"(let in the carriage," said Mr. Lee, "and we will ride to the banks of the Ganges,
for which the liberated combatants and non-combatants started from this place." On our
way Mr. Lee pointed out a monument over the burial place which was opened for General
Wheeler's intrenchment, and the well into which every night the dead had been dropped.
Around it is a curious memorial. There are five crosses, one .■ each corner of the garden
and one at the centre. Riding on, we came to the Memorial Church built to the memory
of those fallen in Cawnpore. The walls are covered with tablets and epitaphs. I copied
two or three of the inscriptions. "These are they who came out of great tribulation;"
also, " The dead shall be raised incorruptible ; " also, " In the world ye shall have
tribulation, but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world;" also, "The Lord
gave ; the Lord hath taken away ; " also, " Come unto me all ye that labor and are heav\'
laden."
" Get into the carriage," said Mr. Lee, and we rode on to the Ganges, and got out at a
Hindoo temple standing on the banks. " Now," said Mr. Lee, " here is the place to which
General Wheeler and his people came under the escort of Nana Sahib." I went down the
steps to the margin of the river. Down these steps went General Wheeler and the men.
women, and children under his care. They stood on the side of the sieps, and Nana Sahib
and his staff stood on the other side. As the women were getting into the boats Nana Sahib
objected that only the aged and infirm women and children should go on board the boats.
The young and attractive women were kept out. Twenty-eight boats were filled with men,
women, and children and floated out into the river. Each boat contained ten arniccl
natives. ^ Then three boats fastened together were brought up, and General Wheeler and his
staflTgot in. Although orders were given to start, the three boats were somehow detained.
At this juncture a boy twelve years of age hoisted on the top of the Hindoo temple on the
banks two flags, at which signal the boatmen and armed natives jumped from the boats and
swam for the shore ; and from innumerable gnus the natives on the bank fired on the boats,
and masked batteries above and below roared with destruction, and the boats sank with their
precious cargo, and all went down save three strong swimmers, who got to the opposite
shore. Those who struggled out nearby were dashed to death. Nana Sahib and his stall
with their swords slashed to pieces General Wheeler and his staff, who had not got well
away from the shore.
I said that the yoting and attinctive women were not allowed to get into the boats.
These were marched away under the guard of the Sepoys.
THE WORLD AS SKEN TO-DAY,
279
" Which way ? " I inquired. " I will show you," said Mr. Ue. Asaiii \\v took seals in
the carria<>e and .started lor the cliiiia.x of desperation and diabolism. Now we are on the
way to a summer house called the A.ssembly Rooms, which had been built fen- recreation
and pleasure. It had two rooms, each twenty by ten feet, and .some windowle.ss closets, and
here were et biased two hundred and si.x helpless people. It was to become the prison of
these women and children. Some of the Sepoys sot permission of Nana Sahib to take
one or more of these ladies to their own place, on the promise they should be brought back
to the sunnner garden next morning. A daughter of General Wheeler was so taken and did
not return. She afterward married the ]\Iohammedan who had taken her to his tent.
Some of the Sepoys amused themselves by thrusting children through with 1)a\onets and
holding them up before their mothers in the summer house. All the doors clo.sed and the
Sepoys standing guard, the crowded women and children awaited their doom for eighteen
days and nights amid sickness, and flies, and stench, and starvation.
Then Nana Sahib lieard that Havelock was coining, and his name was a terror to the
Sepoys. Lest the women and children imprisoned in the summer house, or Assembly
Rooms, should be liberated, he ordered that their throats should be cut. The officers were
commanded to do the work and attempted it, but failed because the law of caste would not
allow the Hindoo to hold the victims while they were being slain. Then one hundred men
were ordered to fire through the windows, but they fired over the heads of the imprisoned
ones, and only a few were killed. Then Nana Sahib was in a rage, and ordered professional
butchers from among the lowest of the gypsies to go at the work. Five of them with
hatchets and swords and knives began the work, but three of them collapsed and fainted
under the ghastliness, and it was left to two butchers to complete the slaughter. The
struggle, the sharp cut, the blinding blow, the cleaving through scalp and .skull, the begging
for life, the death agony of hour after hour, the tangled limbs of the corpses, the piled-up
dead — only God and those who were inside the summer house can ever know. The
l)utchers came out exhausted, thinking they had done their work, and the doors were closed.
But when they were again opened, three women and three boys were still alive. All these
were soon dispatched, and not a Christian or a European was left in Cawnpore. The
imirderers were paid fifty cents for each lady slain. Th.e ^lohammedan assassins dragged
by the hair the dead bodies out of the summer house and threw them into a well, by which
I stood with such feelings as you cannot imagine. Rut after the mutilated bodies had been
thrown into the well, the record of the scene remained iu hieroglyphics of crimson on the
floor and wall of the .slaughter-house. An eye-witness says that, as he walked in, the blood
was shoe deep, and on this blood were tufts of hair, pieces of muslin, broken combs, frag-
ments of pinafores, children's straw hats, a card-case containing a curl with the inscription,
" Ned's hair, with love ; " a few leaves of an Episcopal prayer-book, also a book entitled,
" Preparation for Death ; " a Bible, on the fly-leaf of which was written, " For darling
inamma, from her affectionate daughter, Isabella Blair" — both the one who presented it and
the one to whom it was presented, departed forever.
I said : " Mr. Lee, I have heard that indelicate things were found written on the wall
by the inmates." He answered : " No ; but these poor creatures wrote in charcoal and
scratched on the wall the story of the brutalities they had suffered."
When the English and Scotch troops came upon the scene, their wrath was so great
that General Neill had the butchers arrested, and before being .shot, compelled them to wipe
up part of the floor of this place of massacre, this being the wor.st of their punishment, for
there is nothing that a Hindoo so hates as to touch blood. When Havelock came upon the
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THK KARTH GIRDLED.
scone he had tl,is „nlu- annullcl. The well uas n„w not .,n!v fnll of hunrn, hori; 1 .
cnrps.s,Ml.dontlK.ontsi.k.. The soldiers were A. nuun- luM.rscn.!',„c "nt^^^
concentrated at the well, into
whicli linndrei's of women and
children were fliuijr or lowered.
A circular wall of white marble
encloses this well. Tlie wall is
about twentv feet hijjli. Inside
this wall there is a marble paw-.
ment. I paced it, and fonnd it
fiftv-sevcn paces aroinid. In the
centre of this enclosure, and im-
mediately above the well of tin
dead, is a scnlptnred an<,rel of re.-
nrrection, with illumined face;
and two palm branches, mean-
in- victory. This anoel is look-
in.ir down toward the slumberer.-,
beneath, but the two winces sn«:-
J,^est the risinc? of the last day.
Mighty consolation in marble .'
They went down under the hatch-
ets of the Sepoys ; thev shall conie
lip under the trumpet that shall
wake the dead. I felt weak ;
aiu!
MHiioRiAr, wKr.r. at cawxpork.
all a-trenible as I stood reading
these v.-ords on the stone that
covers tlie well : " Sacred to tli.,-
perpetual niemorv of a -.-eat conu.anv of n,r,-«f ^^'^^^^^^^^ well: ''Sacred to tlv
cruelly nuassacred near til pot bv 1 e rd'el X "sa^hi/ ' ^f' ""T" ""''' ^"■^^''•^"'
dead, into the well beneath, oi the 15 c k of hi Vs ' ' o' 1 """,' ^'T I"^''"^' '''''' ''^'
were cut the words : " These are thev Jh \ r' ^^'"^ ''"'''' °^ ^''^ mausolenni
'n. , . ■ ^^''" ^'"^'"^ °"t of great tribulation "
L
nan IkkUls, but
^\.\hi<r tlic dead,
awiiijorc, Tlic
en of exquisite
eventy niouuds
V soldier stands
eda soldier if I
md white, botli
e white for the
orbiu,<>- interest
the well, into
)f women and
i.tr or lowered.
white luarblf
The wall is
his:li. Insidi-
X marble ])a\c-
, and found it
ound. In the
xsure, and ini-
le well of tin
;1 an<,re] of res-
imined fice :
;nches, mean-
uii^el is look-
lie slumbcrer.^
vo wino^s su<i-
the last da\.
in inarbk- '
lerthehatcli-
ey shall conic
'et that shall
elt weak and
tood readiui^
? stone that
lacred to tlv-
nd chikhvn,
inc;- with the
-" mausoleiiin
iffht steps (if
IS Napoleon,
■e the one ui"
daces of tlie
nth centnr\-,
he dauj^htcr
ss, and they
/
>'.
O
THE WORLD AS SKHN TO-DAY.
2Sr
\\f!c told tliat for a wliile after the iiiutiiiy Xaiui Saliih set up a little ixnnp in the juiit^lfs.
A moll J,' a few thoiisaiul Iliudoos and Mohainniedans he took for hiinseif the onJN two lents
the iiei},diborhuod had, while the\ lived in the rain and mud. Xana Saliil), with one serxaiit
carryiii},' an umbrella, would jjjo every day to bathe, and peo|)le wonUl j^o and stare. 1m. r
some reason, after a while he fi)rsoi)k even that .small attention and (lisai)peared anionic the
ravines of the Himalayan mountaiti.s. He took with him in hi.s fli).,dit that whieli he alwavs
took with him — a ruby of vast value. He wore it as some wear an amulet. lb wore it as
sdiiie wear a life-preserver. He wore it on his bosom. The Hindoo priest told him aslono
,> lie wore that ruby iiis fortunes would be <;ood, but both the ruby ,uid the prince who
wore it have vanished. Not a treasure on the outside of the bosom, but a treasure inside
tlie heart, is the I)est protection. Solomon, who had rubies in the hilt (if swords, and rubies
ill his crown, declared that which Xana Sahib did not find out in his time: " wisdom is
belter than rubies." When the forests of India are cleared by the axes of another civiliza-
tion, the lost ruby of tliis Cawnpore monster may be picked up, and Ik- bn.ui^lit back aj^ain
to blaze amony^the world's jewels. Hut who shall reclaim for deceiu sepulture the remains
of Xana Sahib? Ask the vultures. Ask the reptiles. Ask the jackals. Ask the inid-
iiii,dit Himalayas.
i
i
I-
ON THi': HANKS ui- TiiK o.\Ni;i;s
M^m
{2iii)
CIIAI'TI.R XXX.
THE TAJ.
IX a jouiiKy trniiiul llif wind it may ii,.t Ik- uisv to till Uic- exact i)niiit which
(livuks the i)il<,miiia;rc i- t„ ],aivcs. Hut there was one structure toward wliich wc
were all the liuie traveli ij^ and h.- in;r seen that we felt that if we saw nothincr
more, our e.vpedition woi.ld t.e ^ m.cccss. That (jue object was the Taj of India.
It is the crown of the whole earth. •.. .Mrits of architecture met to enthrone a kin.^ and
llic spirit of the i'artheiion at Athens was there ; and the spirit of St. Sophia of Conslinti-
lu.ple was there ; and the spirit of St. Isaac of St. iVieishur^r \vas there; and the spirit of
the Haptistery of I'isa was there ; and the spirit of the (neat I'vraniid and of the l.uxnv
obelisk, and of the Porcelain tower of Nankin, and of St. .Mark's of Venice, and the spirits
ol all the great towers, <,rreat cathedrals, -rcat mausoleunis, -reat sareophajri, ^rrcat capitols
for the hvinjr, and of -reat necropolises for the dead, were there. And the ])resi(lin<^- jrenius
ol the throncr, with <,nivel of Parian marble smot. tlie table of Russian malachite, and called
thr thron-,' of spirits to order, and called for a vole as to which spirit should wear the chief
crown, and mount the chief throne, and wave the chief sceptre, and bv unanimous acclaim
the cry was: " Lon- live the spirit of the Taj, kin- of all the .spirits of architecture!
Thine is the Taj Mahal u[ India ! "
The buildin- is about six miles from Agra, and as we rode out in the earlv dawn we
heard nothin- but the hoofs and wheels that pulled and turned us alon- th'e road, at
every yard of which our expectation rose until we had some thought that we might be
(hsapiiointed at the first glimpse, as some say they were disajjpointed. Rut how anvonc can
he disappointed with the Taj is almost as great a wonder to lue as the Taj itself.' There
are .some people always disapj^ointed, and who know.s but that having entered heaven thev
may criticise the .architecture of the Temple, and the cut of the white robes, and sa\- that
the River of Life is not quite up to their expectations, and that the white horses on which
the conquerors ride .seem a little springhalt, or spavined ?
My son said, "There it is ! " I .said, " Where?" For that which he saw to be the
Imilding seemed to me to be more like the morning cloud blushing under the stare of vha
rising sun. It seemed not so much built up from earth as let down from heaven. For-
tiiuately you stop at an elaborated gateway of red .sandstone one-eighth of a mile from the
Taj, an entrance .so high, .so arched, so graceful, .so four-domed, so painted, and chisled, and
scrolled that you come very gradually upon the Taj, which structure is enough to intoxicate
the eye,^ and stun the imagination, and entrance the .soul. We go np the winding stairs of
this majestic entrance of the gateway, and buy a few pictures, and examine a few curios,
and from it look off upon the Taj, and descend from the pavement to the garden that
raptures everything between the gateway and the ecstasv of marble and precious stones.
\'m pass along a deep stream of water in which all manner of brilliant fins .swirl and Hoat.
There are eighty-four fountains that spout, and bend, and arch thcm.selves to fall in showers
ot pearl in basins of snowy whiteness. Beds of all imaginable flora greet the nostril before
II
THK WORLD AS SKKX TO-DAV.
2S5
tliL'v do the eye and seem to roll in waves of ccjlor as Non advanee tdwanl the vision xou
are soon to ha\e of what hnnian "enins did when it did its best ; nioon-llnwers, lilaes, niari-
-ulds, tulips, and almost cvei\ where the lotus; thiekets of bewildering;- bloom; on either
side trees from many lands bend their ar])oreseence overNonr head, or seem with convoluted
branches to reach out their arms toward you in welcome. On and on you ,1,^0 amid tama-
rind, and cypress, and poplar, and oleander, and yew, and sycamore, and l)an\an, and i)alm,
and trees of stich novel branch, and leaf, and ^^irth, you cease to ask their name or nativity.
A> you approach the door of the Taj one c.\])eriences a stran,i,fe sensation of awe, and tender-
ness, and humility, and worship. The buildino- is onl\- a j;rave, luit what a .gravel linilt
for a (pieen who, accordin,^; to some, was very ,i;ood ; and accordiu','- to others, was very
bad. I ciioose to think she was ver\- jrood. At any rate, il uiakes me feel better to think
that this commemorative pile was set up fortlie immortalization of virture rather than vice.
T!ie Taj is a mountain of white marble, but never such walls faced each other with exquisite-
ne-s ; never such a tomb was cut out from block of alabaster ; never such con^rei^ation
(if iirecions stones brij^htened, and j^loomed, and blaxed, and chastened, and -glorified a
I)uildin,i,r since sculptor's chisel cut its first curve, or ])aiiiter's pencil traced its first figure,
or mason's pUunb-line measured its first wall, or architect's compass swept its first circle.
The Taj has sixteen i^n-ai arched windows, four at each corner. Also at each (jf the
fiiiir corners of the Taj stands a uiinaret one hundred and thirty-seven feet hi<;h. Also at
each side of this buildin.ii; is a splendid mosque of red .sandstone. Two hundred and fifty
years has the Taj stood, and yet not a wall has cracked, nor a mosaic loosened, nor an arcli
sajf.i,'ed, nor a panel dulled. The storms of two hiuidred and fift\- winters have not marred,
nor the heats of two hundred and fifty summers disintej^rated a marble. There is uo story
of a;4e written by nujsses on its white surface. :\Iontaz, the (pieen, was beautiful, and Shah
Jelian, the kin.y, here i)roposed to let all the centuries of time know it. She was married
at twenty years of iv^c and died at twenty-nine. Her life ended as another life be^an ; as
the rose bloomed the rosebush perished. To adorn this donnitory of the dead, at the com-
mand of the kino;, Ba<;dad sent to this buildin*-- its cornelian, and Ceylon its lapis-lazidi, and
the Punjab its jasper, and Persia its amethyst, and Thibet its turquoise, and Lanka its sap-
phire, and Yemen its a<;ate, and Punah its <liamonds, and bloodstones, and sardonyx, and
chalcedony, and moss agates are as comnu^n as thouo;h they were pebbles. You find one
sjirav of vine beset with ei<,dity and another with one hundred stones. Twenty thousand men
were twenty years in buildins4- it, and altl!ou,L,di the lal)or was slave-labor, and not jiaid for,
the buildiu','- cost what would be about S6o,ooo,ooo of our American money. vSome of the
jewels have been ])icked out of the wall by iconoclasts or conquerors, and substitutes of less
vahie have taken their places ; but the vines, the traceries, the arabesques, the spandrels,
the entablatures are so wondrous that \ou feel like (latino- the rest of your life from the dav
: on first saw them. In letters of black marljle the whole of the Koran is .spelled out in
and .m this au<,nist pile. The kino; sleeps in the tond) besides the queen, althou<,di he
nuended to build a palace as black as this was white on the opposite side of the river for
Ir.niself to sleep in. Indeed, the foundation fi)r such a necrojiolis of black uiarble is still
there, and from the white to the black tem])le of the dead a l)rid<ve was to cross; but the
son dethroned him and imprisoned him, and it is wonderful that the kin>4 had any place at all
ni which to be buried. Instead of windows U> let in the liolit upi)n the two tombs, there is
n trellis-work of marble, marble cut so delicately thin that the sun shines through it as
CMsily as through glass. Look the world over and you find no such translucency, canopies,
traceries, lace work, embroideries of stone.
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THE WORLD AS SEEN TO-DAY.
2S7
We had lieard of llie wonderful resonance of this Taj, and so I tried it. I suppose
tliere are more sleei)inj,^ eclioes in that buildinj; waitin,^- to lie wakened bv the human voice
than in any buildinsr ever constructed. I uttered one word, and there seemed descending
invisible choirs in fnV chant, and there was a reverberation that kept on lon<^ after one
would have expc",cJ it to cease. When a line of a Iniun was sun<r there were replyinij.
r(illin.((, risin<i^, fallin,^;, interweavin.i^ sounds that seemed modulated by beinj^s seraphic.
Tiiere were aerial sopranos and bassos, soft, hi<;h, deep, trennilous, emotional, comniiii.<;Iui.<;-.
U was like an antiphonal of heaven. Rut there are four or five Taj Mahals. It has one
ajipearance at sunrise, another at noon, another at sunset, and another bv nu)onli<;ht.
Indeed, the silver trowel of the moon, and the ,L,volden trowel of the suniij^dit, and the leaden
trowel of the storm build and rebuild the j^Iory, so th.at it never seems iwice alike. It has
all moods, all coni])le.\ions, all <;Tandenrs. From the to]) of tlie Taj, which is two hundred
and fifty feet hi<,di, sprin>;s a spire thirty feet hi,<,dier, i:;m1 that is enameled with "old.
What an anthem in eternal rhythm ! Lyrics and elegies '.n marble ! Sculptured hosanna !
Masonry as of supernatural hands ! Mighty doxology in stone ! T shall sec nothing to
equal it until I see the Great Wliite Throne and on it Him from whose face the earth and
the heavens flee away.
The Taj is the pride of India, and especially of Mohammedanism. An Knglish ofl^icer
of the fortress told us that wdien during the general mutiny in 1S57 the Mohannnedans
proposed insurrection at Agra, the Knglish Govennnent aimed the guns of the fort at the
Taj and said: " You make insurrection, and that same day we wib. blow your Taj to atoms,"
and that threat ended the disposition for mutinv at Agra.
I shall take home with me for my book some pictures of the Taj, and I have already-
among my baggage a block of a, ,i, aster hewn here, about a foot square, showing thisbniki-
mg in miniature. To try to put such a majesty of structure in so small a comjiass may
seem like trying to compress Haydn's " Creation " into a nmsic-box, or paint Michi A Angelo's
" Last Judgment " on a cup. But this imitation on a small scale of the grandf .,l of hiunan
creations ma>- in coming years revive my memory of that which I have n w seen. And
then some d.-^.y when at home the dull weather or overwork depresses me, and I need
arousal,^ I will put tliis portable 'Taj on my writing-desk before me, and if there be no
power in the light that tips the golden pinnacles to fire my imagination, and if my
thoughts from the tiny dome of alabaster cannot spring heavenward, and if out of all the
precious .stones that pave, and wall, and crown this mausoleum, there be not enough to
make a stairs on which to climb into higher experiences, then it will not be the fault of the
y:rcat Frenchman, Austin de Bordcau, who built this architectural miracle of all ages, but
because I did not properly improve this coronal opportunity of a lifetime.
CHAPTER XXXI.
DELHI -THE ANCIENT CAPITAL.
Bl^FORE the first historian iinpressed liis first word in clay, or cut his first word on
marble, or wrote his first word on papyrns, Delhi stood in India, a contcnijiorarv
of Babylon and Nineveh. We know that Dellii existed lon<j;er before Christ'^
time than we live after his time. Delhi is bnilt on the ruins of seven citii s,
which ruins cover ijurteen miles with wrecked temples, broken fortresses, split toml)>,
tumbled-down palaces and the debris of centuries. An arclueologist could i^rofitably spenii
his life here talkinsi; witli the past through its lips of venerable masonry.
When we arrived the city was nearly abandoned except by the natives, for malignaiu
fevers of all sorts reigned. The station-master told me that eighty-five of the employes ot'
the railroad were down with sickness. A lady, to whom we went for information regarding
the citv, said all the members of her family had the fever, and she soon would be down
with it. We had the best hotel of the city to ourselves. The rainy season liad just ceased
and the rivers were receding and leaving the flats and marshes to i^roduce aches, and pain>,
and illnesses enough to supply all India. A wealthy American had, some months before,
hired this entire hotel for his family, clearing out all the other guests, anc, ;; ying a large
price for exclusive occupancy. But at ordinary charges all the rooms oi' \e large IioIlI
were put at our disposal, the fevers abroad in Delhi securing for us a;, much room as a
niulti-millionairist had bought for one family. The hotel here is unusually good for India,
but for some reason nearly all the hotels of India are distasteful. There is one style of
beverage that I am especially fond of, and you cannot get it in India. I looked for it up
and down in dl the cities. You can buy champagne,' and beer, and brandy, and inaiiv
styles of drink.i, but the rare beverage I speak of you cannot get. The thirst for it some-
times came upon me so mightily I would have given ten dollars for a bottle. There an,'
plenty of distilleries in that country, but my favorite kind of liqucr they do not brew. I
so needed the stimulus that I was impatient to get a glass, at least what is called " tliitc
fingers " of it. 1 mean good water. Nothing under heaven can take the place of it. A
glass of water in most parts of India is a small aquarium, and a miniature menagerie, and drink-
ing it you merely drink the occupants, the denizens, the inhabitants out of the glass iiilo
your own digestive organs, and there arc internal riots, and strikes, and rel " 'c .., and
massacres, and revolutions, and pandemoniums that either put you in bed o' gr-vt Tlie
inestimable blessing that in America you get by the pailful you cannot in .ion ^ .rls nf
India get by the thimbleful. And then the advice given me I give others : ' ?)Utter \onr
own toast." "Why?" I asked, and you ask. I'ecause the modes of buttering toast in the
hotels of India are far from satisfactory. The native cook takes a dirty towel and dips it ;i
grease and rubs it over the surface of the toast. The advantage is that he can butter sixtv
pieces of toast in sixty seconds. One wijie, and the deed is done ! This is all. a matter d
taste, but it does not suit my taste. Vet, it does not make much difference what you eat or
Avhere vou sleep. You are in India for one o))ject, namely, sight-seeing.
(2SS)
'St word (ill
itemporarv
)re Christ'^
even citil^,
plit tombs,
ably spL'ini
malisnaiit
mploycs ui
1 ix'j^anlinu'
Id l)c down
just CL'ClSld
and pain-,
itlis hcfoiv,
int; a larijc
lartje lioul
I room as a
1 for India,
)ne style of
xl for it 11])
and inaii\'
'or it soiiii.-
Thcrc arc
3t brew. I
lied " thivc
c of it. A
, anddriuk-
? ji^lass iiilo
''c .., and
r-vr Tlic
'1 ,-.rlsiif
hitter \(inr
Ltast in I'll--
d dips it ■:!
)Utter sixty
I matter "I'
you eat or
(2Sy)
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THE EARTH GIRDLED.
On arrival in Calcutta or lioinbay, eitliLT the east side of India or tliv we.st hide, \(
must iiire a traveliiii^ servant, some one coninended to yon for lionestv ;'iul eapacits, ■
speak somewhat of lvi,!:;lisli. Von ninsi. alsolnc, a woolen rn.i:,' and Iwolilanki is for slf.'t.]iiii
purposes, as in many places hotels do not pro\ide anytliin",^ bnt :i bedste.-f'. Then, •
must wear aronnd yon what has a fri<;htfnl name, but is re.dl\- a sanitary •,)'-ecautioi!
cholera-belt. Yoil nnist have a snn-hat, a whii!.' umbrella, and white canvas shoes, an
plenty of determination not to liave yotir dispcsitien ruffled, anJ, ought to carr) a full n.i
AKHAK'S PAI.ACE— TIIKONE AND AIDIKNCK ROOM AT AGRA,
Akbar (very Kreati w.i> Ihu greatest .Asiatic nioiiarcli of inodeni times. He assumed the nilership k-
wisdom, viKor and luimaiiily witli wliieli lie orRaiiizeil and admini-tered Ins dmniiiici.s is iiiuxamplei
a Mohammedan he was tolerant toother reli>;iolls, and evn made a study of Chnslianily and attempted \ ■
religion of his own. Hf enoo\iraj{e<l literature, was pre,;!- ive in spirit, mereilal and just as a r in-'
relieve his subjects from the burdens of la.\ation. He di '. ■ 005.
■ . in ^5,s*^. aihi the
East. Ahli-imli
omulaation ,it ■ n- w
III by ever> \\\^'A\> ' to
zation of the fact that yon are liavin.L;: an opportunity which hundreo.. . ' 'Millions of iH'ipl
have lon.t;ed for, yet died without .satisfyin<;-.
And now we are in the city of Delhi. There are a hundred things '; ■ -e -.ououj^
see, but three thinj^s you must see. The first thiiij^ I wanted to see was thf » T'^hmere (
for that was the point at which the most wonderful deed of daring whi .!' l.ie worit
to
ite,
has
Tin<: WORLD AS Slvl'X TO-DAV
%\est side, \ I
ul i,'iipacit\, ■
Is for slf-tpin
\. Tlu-n,
■ pn'cautioi!
^■as shoes, ,11:
i'}- a full i\.,
291
r.— . .■*
. ' 111 15S'>, :ltl'! til'-"
East. AUh null
iiiiuilK.'itiiin .)! ' !!■ w
11 by c'Viiv iiK.i:. ^ to
ions of JH'np'ie
e '.ou oui;!'.! to
aslimero ( VAc,
tiie woiUI has
cv(.r setii was done. Tliat was the tiiniin,L;-i)oiiil of ihe imilinv of 1S37, so far as Delhi wa-s
eiiiiceriied. A lady at Delhi put into my hand an oil-jiaintiii- of ahout ei<.;lileen inehe.s
siiuare, a picture well e.xecnted, hut chiefly valuahle for what it represented. It was a scene
from the time of mutiny ; two horses at full run, harnessed to a earria.^e in which were four
lursous. She .said: " Those persons on the front seat are my father and mother. The
v(.nn,u: lady on the l)aek seat lioldiu<,rin her arms a hahy of a year was mv older si.ster, and
the baby was my.self. My mother, who is down with the fever in the ne.xt room, painted
that years a.<,^o. The horses arc in full run, because we were flecin.t,^ for (,nr lives. .My
uK.ther is drivinj,^, for the reason that father, standing up in the front of hisearria-e, had to
defend us witli his ,<,run, as yon there .see. He fought our way f)nt and on for manv'a mile,
shootinjr down the Sepoys as we went. We had somewhat suspected trouble, and had
RKiii:r. sKpov.s AT tiia.iii.
b >me.snsp,c,ousol our .servruU.s. A prince had requested a private interview witl, „,v
ne,, who was editor o the Delln r;.:./A, The prince propcscd to cou.e veiled, so that
n„em,j,htrecoc,nnx.ehn„,but n,v n.other iusi.sted on being present, and the interview
1 no take ,^ace. A large fish had been sent to our family and four other tannlies. the
e..en an offering o thanks for the king's recovery from a recent sicknes.s, Hu we
a^ Kcted p„,son and dul not eat the fish. One da^■ all our .servants came up and .said they
must go an<l .see what was the matter. We saw what was intended, and knew that if the
T(l^" T ' T-' '""f'^ """t'"'" "^ "'• '^''■'"^^^'--^v worse and worse until this scene
ot thglt si owm ,n the picture took place. Vou see, the horses were wild with fri-^ht. This
was not only becau.se of the discharge of guns, but the hor .. were struck and pounded
if
I
29'
THE KARTII (HRDLKD.
by Si'l'iivs, and mju'S wlvi.' tii.'«l across tlic way, and tlic savaj^a' lialloo, and tlic shout in,
i<.'Vcn,nc mack- all the \va\- of our flight a horror."
TliL' books havi.' fully rcx-ordi'd ihu iu'roisni displaytd at Di'lhi and approxiniali.' n.-.L;i.iii,,
1)Ul make no nicntion of this family of \Va,L;vnlrcil)i.rs, whose llii;ht 1 am meiitionin.^-. lliit
the Madras Alhtihiiui ])rinted this:
" And now ! Are not the deeds of the W i^entreibers, thou<;li he wore a round hat and
she a crinoline, a.s worthy of imperishable verse as those of the heroic pair whose nuptiaU
<,naced the court of Charlema.i^ue ? A more toncliin<; picture than that of the l)rave man
contcndin.L,^ with well-nerved arm a<,Minst the black and threatening fate impendin<,' over liis
wife and child, we have ne\er seen. Here was no strife for the .<;lory of plnsieal i)rowe»,
or the spoil of shininj; arms, but a conquest of the liinnan mind, an a.s.sertioii of the powers
I
iV«T^^'
i t.
SHOOTINO PRIS0NI;KS I'KOM A taN.
f)ne of the most Irnnic episoilfs in llif lii-ioiy of India was the Svpny Kcbtllion of iS?;, which hcRaii in a mad riot of iM:is-:ure
anil rapino. When the uprisinir was finally suppresseil, Sir Ueclor Monroe executed a nunilier of the leaUcrs.by Uisliing llicm
to a cannon and l>lowing tlani from llic nui/.zle,
of intellect over the most appallin<j^ array of circumstances that could assail a human beiiiif.
Men have become j^rav in front of sudden and unexpected peril, and in ancient days so much
was coin-a,L;e a matter of heroics and mere instinct that we read in inunortal verse of Ik iocs
struck with panic and fleein<,r before the enem\-. lint the sava.^e Sepo>s with tlieir hoarse
war-cry, and swarming like wasps around the \Va!:;entreibers, struck no terror into the brave
man's heart. His heroism was not the mere ebullition t>f despair, but like that of his wile,
calm and wise ; standin;^ upri.ght that he niit,dit use his arms better."
As an incident will sometimes more impress one than a .generality of .statement, I pre-
sent the tlii;ht of this one ^amily from Delhi merely to illustrate the desperation of the
tlic slidul i>(
natf iv.i^inii-,,
i()llill,!:,r. Uiit.
juiul lialiui'l
lose nuptial-,
e hraw man
liii'jf ovtT his
ical |)r()\V(.'>s,
f the powers
AiJ:.''" ""3
;iil riot nf iii.i>-;KTe
s.by lasliini; Ihciii
miiiaii Ikmii.u;.
clays so iiincli
L-rse of Ikviil's
1 thi-'ir liiiavse
iito tlic l)rave
t of his wife,
iciiK'iit, I pve-
?ration oi llit^
TiiUDiiui Till-: STKia;;.-; m' cawnpouic.
(293)
ill
894
THK F.Ak'Pn (^IRDLKD.
tiiUfS, The fact was thai the' Sepoy- ' i, session of tlir city of Delhi, and tln".
were, with all their artiller\, lij^htiii!; Imck ine Ivuropeaiis wlio were uii the outside, an
iiiiir(leriii,ij all the I'airoiRaiis who w<ie inside. The citv of Delhi has a erennlaled wall on
three sides, a wall five and one-hall miles lon,i^, and the fourth side of the city is defendid
l)v the ri\er Jnnina. In addition to these t\v(j defences of wall ;ind water, there were 40,0(1..
,Se])()vs, all armed. Twelve hundred Ilritish soldiers were to take Mial cit\'. Nicholson, lib
immortal j^eneral, commanded tluiii, and you nnist \i- lii., j^rave hefori vou leave Delhi.
lie fell leadinjf his troops, lie conunanded them even after niort.aily wounded. Vou will
read this in.scription on his lonih :
"John Niciiui..s()N, who led. the a.s.sault of Delhi, but fell in
till hour of victorx, mortally wounded, and
died twenty-third vSipteniber, 1X57.
•V-ed 35 \ ears."
With wliat u^iins and men deneral Nicholxm could nnister he had laid sit'^e to tlii-
walled city filled with devils. \Vh;it fiMrful odds! Twelve hundred I'ritish troops
nnprolected bv an\- military' works to take a city >nrrounded by firm and hif^h masonry, on
the top of which were one hundred and fourteen JlJUUs del nded bv 40,000 foamini.,^ Scikan
A larger percentaj^e of troops fell here than in au\ i^real b.illle I happen to kuou i ! Tin-
Crimean pereeuta.i^e of the fallen was 17. 4S, but the percenla<4e of Diilii was 37.9. Yd
that city must be t.d^en, and it can only be taken by such conra-^e as has nevc r been
recorded in all the annals of l)kx)ds]icd. I'Acry charge of the P>ritish re.^•iment^^ a.^ain^l l'
walls and <;ates had been beaten back. The hyenas of Ilindooisui and Moliammedani>in
howled over the walls, and the Kn,q;Hsh army coidd do nothing;- but bury th.-ir own dead. Ilul
at this ,!L;ale (a picture of which I send for my book) I stand and wauli an exploit !!i it
makes the pa,L;e of hi.->tor\- tremble with a.^itation. This city ha- ten <;ates, but the uki^I
famous is the one before which we now stand, and it is ' died Cashnieic Cate. Write the
words in red ink, becan.se of the carna,!.,' ' Wi •'. them : letters of ii.uht, for tlu illustriou^.
deeds! Write them in letters of black, for the bereft and the dead. Will the world e\ei
forget th;;t Cashmere (iate ? Lieutenants Salkeld and Home, and Seru;eants I!ur.i.;e--s,
Carmichael and Smith oiTered to take bav < ; powder to the foot of tin' s^^ate and set tin tn
on fire, blowiu.n open the j^ate, althonyh thcvnnistdie in do; 'u^ it. Tliere they <>o, just afu i
sunrise, each oni' carrying a sack containint^ twent\-four pounds ol powder, ami doiuiL;' lli;^
nnder the fire of the enemy. Lieutenant Home was the fi to jump into the ditdi, whir!,
still remains before the <>ate. As they >;(), one by or falls uder the shot and shell. ( Hie
of the mortally wonnded, as he falls, hands his .sack m r with a box of !ucifer mateln.s
to another, telling- liim to fnv the .sack ; when, wit! n e '^ion that shook the e.irtli -t
twenty miles around, part cf the Cashmere date was blown into fra<jmcnts, a»id the imhIics
of some of the^^ neroes were .so scattered the\' were never feathered for funeral, or i^rave, or
monument. The I5ritish army rushed in thron,i,di the broken gate, and althonsh m.\ d;i\s
of hard fi<.,ditin'.; were uecessar\ before the city was in complete possession, the crisi^ was
past. The Cashmere (iate open, the captnre of Delhi and all it contained of ])alaces, .uui
mo.sques, and treasures was pcs.sible. Lord Napier, of INIagdala, of whom Mr. (ihui-lDiie
spoke to me .so affectionately when I was his guest at Hawarden, England, has lilteii .1
monument near this Cashmere (kite with the names of the men wdio there fell inscriluil
thereon. That English Lord 'vho had seen courage on many a battlefield, visited tliis C.i>Ii-
iiiere Gate, and felt tliat the men who opened it with the loss of their own lives ought tu be
lli, :m(l tlu\
outsidt.', ail I
aU'd wall (ni
• is (Icfc'iulu!
icllolsoll, llli
kavc I Villi.
1. Villi will
^icjic to tlii-
ritisli ti(i(i|i>
masonry, nii
iiiu^; Sf]i(iy-.
o\v I I 'rile
IS 37.9. Va
•< 1R'\IT l)Cl II
s aj^ainst l!n
aiiiiiicdani.-iii
11 (lead. Hill
exploit lint
but till- innsl
. Write tin-
lu ilhistriniis
iL world evei
Ills l!nriL^i-s,
and set tin in
f;o, just aiui
ud doiii!:;- tlr.^
ditdi, wliii ',
1 shell. ( im
cifer niatclu>
the earth I'l
id the bodies
, or !^rave, or
Mijjli -ix <l;i\s
:he crisis was
palaces, and
Ir. (iladslDiie
, has lifted a
fell inscriliiil
ted this Cash-
s ought to be
(295)
296
TIIH IvXRTir C.IRDLIvD.
coniim luoialfd, and Ik'Uci' tliis ciiiotaiili. Miit, afur all, llie lii>t iiiomiiiuiit is tin.' Ciati
itsflf, willi till' (kill .^Miiii^ts ill till' hiitk wall on iIk' K It side iiiadr 1»\ two IjoiiiIjsIicIIs, aiiu
till' wail al)i>Vf torn !>> ten l)onil)sliLlls, and tlic wall cm llu' rij;lil side defaced, and scar]iiil,
and plowed, ami j^nllied li\ all styles lony-ieaidiinj^r weaponry. Let the words " Ca^i,-
nure (late "as a synonym lor patriuii-,ni, and fearlessness, and sclf-sacriilce yo iiilu all
history, all art, all literature, all time, all eternity !
Another thinjr yon mnst see if yon j^o to Delhi, thonj^h von leave main ihini^s unseen,
is the |)alaee of the Moguls. It is an enelosure of a thousand yards 1>\ five hundred. \'nn
enter lhidti};h a vaulted hall nearly four himdied feel lou^;. l'"loors of [•'loreiitine mosaic,
and \valls once eiiieralded, and sapiihiied, and earlmneled, and diamonded. I said toll:.
jruidc : " Show ns where once stood the I'eaeock Throne." "Here it was," he res])oii(k,l
All the thrones of the eartli ])iit too;el]ier would not eiinal tliat for costliness and brilliance.
It liad steps of silver, and the seat and arms were of solid j^old. It cost abont $i50,of)(),(i(iM.
It stood betwi'en two peacocks, tlic feathers and pinnies of which were fashioned out ••\
Colored stones, .\bove the throne was a life-size parnH, cut out of one emerald. Al)()\e ill
was a caiio])y restin*,^ 011 twelve colnnins of i^old, the canopy friin^ed with pearls. Seatni
here, the eni])eror on public occasions wore a crown containing;, amoii<4 other thinj^s, iIk-
Koh-i-n()or diamond, and the entire blaze of coronet cost .'^lo.^v'iO'**'- This superb ami
once almost sn]>crnatnral!y beautilul room has iinbcddeil in the wliite marble wall letleis
of black marble, which were translated to me from Persian into linglish as meaiiinj;; :
" If oil tile I'iirtli tliiTe 1)1' an Ivliii fil' Miss,
Tlial placf is this, is this, is this, is llii>."
Rut the peacocks that stood beside the throne ha\e flown away, taking- all the displ.u
uilli them, and those white marble lloors were reddened with slaiij>hter, and those baili-
roonis ran with blood, and that Ivlen of which the Persian couplet on the walls s])ake Ii;.>
liad its flowers wither, and its fruits decay, and I thought while lookin,<j; at the brilliant
desolation, and standin.i; amid the banished i^lories of that throne-room, that some one li id
better chanj^e a little that Persian couplet on the wall and make it read :
If tluTf l)ca plai-f wliiTf imicli you miss,
Thai [ilat'o is this, is this, is this, is this.
As I came out of the jxilace into the street of Delhi, I thought to myself: paradises
arc not built out of stone ; are not cut in sculpture ; are not painted on walls ; are not fashioiii d
out of precious stones; do not spray the cheek with fountains; do not olTcr tliroiu- ..r
crowns. Paradises are built out of natures, uplifted and ennobled ; and what architect's com-
pass may not swec]), and sculptor's chisel may not cut, and painter's pencil may not sket( Ii.
and j^ardcuer's skill nia\- not lay out, the .i^raee of (iod can achieve, and if the heart In
ri<,dit, all is ri^ht ; and if the heart be wroii.!L,s all is wroii,:;;.
But I will not \et allow you to lea\e Delhi. The third thin.t;- you must see. nr
never ;idinit that \()ti have 1)een in India, is the ni()S(|ue called Jumma Musjid. It is llic
<^raudest mosque I ever saw except St. Sophia at Constantinople, but it surpasses that in
.some respects ; for St. So])hia was originally a Christian church, and changed into a nios(|iie,
while this of Delhi was ori.^inally built for the .Moslems.
As I ntercd, a thousand or more Mohammedans were prostrated in worship. Tlure
are times when five thousand nia\- be seen here in the same attitude. Ivich stone of tlie
floor is three feet loiio; by one and one-half wide, and each worsliipir has one of these -ii'is
for himself while kneelin<j. The erection of this buildiuj,^ required five thou.sand labnivrs
cut is till' Call
joinhsliclls, aiiM
.■<1, and scarpKl.
.• woviU " Ca>i..
icv j^o into all
■ tllilins UllSClll,
inmilR'd. \'c)ii
iculiiK' iiuisah ,
I sail! to tlk-
lie R'Spiilldcil,
and brilliaiiii..
t #150,000,1 ii«).
asliioiK'd out m|
dd. Al)()\iail
pearls. Siaii.l
her tliitij^s, tliv
'his su{)erl) and
hie wall letl> ;-
ueaiiiiij^ :
all the displav
:ul those halli-
,valls spake li;,-
at the brilliant
t some one had
self: parai!i>rs
enot fashionid
)iTer throne- .m-
irchitect's ediii-
lay not skiti li,
if tlic heart !».
1 nuist ser, or
sjid. It is tile
passes that in
into a nios(|iie,
)rship. Tli'.iv
:li stone of the
' of these -ialis
lusand labmvrs
• -•' vr
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THE KARTH GIRDLED.
. "r
for six years. It is on a plateau of rock ; has four towers vising far into the heavens ; three
j,rrcat gateways inviting the world to come in and honor the memory of the prophet of
many wives ; fifteen domes with spires gold-tipped, and six minarets. What a bnilt-ni>
immensity of white marble and red sandstone ! We passed to a corner of this mosque to
see the relics of Mohammed. There are his sliitpers, much like ordinary slippers, exce])t
very aged. There, also, is the hair of Mohammed's moustache. Vou must not touch it, for
it is very sacred, and has been carefully guarded on down through the centuries. There,
also, is a stone bearing the foot-print of Mohammed, leading you to the conclusion thai
Mohammed must have had a very hard foot, or the stone must have been very soft. We
did not stay any longer to examine that hair than we staid to examine the tooth of Buddha
in Ceylon. We descended the forty marble steps by which we ascended, and took another
look at this wonder of the world. As I thought what a brain the architect nnist have had
who first built that mosque in his own imagination, and as I thought what an opulent ruler that
must have been who gave the order for such vastness and s\nnnetr\-, I was reminded of
that which perfectly explained all. The architect who planned this was the same man who
planned the Taj, namely, Austin de Bordeau, and the king who ordered the mosque con-
structed was the king who ordered the Taj, namely, Shah Jehan. As this (irand Mogul
ordered built the most .splendid palace for the dead when he built the Taj at Agra, he here
ordered built the most splendid palace of worship for the living at Delhi. See lieve what
sculpture and architecture can accomplish. They link together the centuries. They suc-
cessfully defy time. Two htuidred and eiglity years ago Austin de Bordeau and Shah Jehan
quit this life, bn*- their work li^•es and bids fair to stand imtil the continents crack open, and
hemispheres go down, and this planet showers other worlds with its ashes.
I rejoice in all these big buildings, whether dedicated to Mohammed, or Brahma, or
Puddha, or Confucius, or Zoroaster ; because as St. Sophia at Constantino])le was a Christian
church changed into a moscpie, and will yet be changed back again, so all the mosques and
temples of superstition and sin will yet be turned into churches. W' hen India, and Ceylon, and
China, and Japan are ransomed, as we all believe they will be, their religious structures will
all be converted into Christian asylums, and Christian school.s, and Christian libraries, and
Christian churches. Built at the expense of superstition and sin, they will yet be dedicated
to the Lord Almighty !
As that night we took the railroad train from the Delhi station and rolled out throui^l;
the city now living, over the vaster cities bmied umkr this ancient capital, cities nndi r
cities, and our traveling servant had unrolled our bed, which consisted of a rug and t
blankets and a pillow; and as we were worn out with the sight-seeing of the day, and w
roughly tossed on that uneven Indian railway, I soon fell into a troubled sleep, in whir!
I saw and heard in a confused way the scenes and sounds of the mutiny of 1S57, which at
Delhi we had been recounting; and now the rattle of the train seemed to turn into ih.
rattle of musketry ; and now the light at the top of the car deluded me with the idea m i
burning city ; and then the loud thump of the railroad brake was in dream mistaken fui ,1
booming battery ; and the \-oi'-es at the different stations made me think I heard the loiul
cheer of the British at the taking of the Cashmere Gate ; and as we rolled over bridges the
battles before Delhi seemed going on ; and as we went through dark tunnels I seemed to
•see the tond) of Humayun, in which the king of Delhi was hidden ; and in my dream Isaw
Lieutenant Renny, of the artillery, throwing shells which were handed him, their fii ' >
burning; and Campbell, and Reid, and Hope Grant covered with blood; and Nichol: n
falling while rallying on the wall his wavering troops; and I saw dead regiment fall ui
I'll,'
1
THK WORLD AS SHHX TO-DAY.
acnxss dead rejriinent, and Iieaid tl
of the Hen,<,vil Art; 11
rougher the Ind
le rataplan of the Ik
(■•ry, and the storm
il
>f Hodson's II<
III'
lan railway became, and tlie darker tl
'>>■ the immortal I
onrlh Colnin
299
Tse, aiul tlie da.sji
le iiijrlit >ne\v, t
1 ; and tlie
iiie ill incnhiis.
lie more the scenes that
esthat
P'Ut the moriiino: l)eo;a,i t^ jooj.
I had been study in.r at Delhi came on
throuc.h the wiiulow of onr jolting rail-ca;'' ;nd\hrMmH...,,r? ^"^V"""""^ '''^'" '" '""'^
in my dreams I saw the hriolu color of 1 P ] i ""•"'"' "' "■"»>■ I'iHow, and
.reen banner of the Moslem iiai w - / ' ''"^'■•^'' ''"] '"'^'"' ''''' ^'^"■'' -'"-^^ ^'"-^
to be exchanged for the voice tu^lL ":,;;;:;: f '" """""^^1 ''"'^ ''>-^-emed
light got brighter and brighter, and 1 ,. r ''." "V^.^^"""- And as the morning
ciinrch bell hanging in a inin ire !• ' \r ,"""'•''' ''"' ''^'"-^ ""' ^ ^^''^•■^•" <<"• ^
praver, I seemed to he nr th .lu r^^ '""""' '"'' """"'''-' '— '^ ^o
cnnld not tell, but it .4 a c hm U ^it " ,W "''' T' "'V-^y'---- i" -v dream I
spcedoftheraiUrainslackenc t V lion o h" ^° '""'•" •'"'• ^ ^l-
the track that it seemed to me 1 al ,,1 ' "'', '"""'"■ ■^" "'^>" '' ^^^ -""' '-^'-'^^
of the world had cease.l ; and in 1- dre I C: ht we uT'^'T T' ^■''"^' ^"^' ""^^
ransomed of the Lord shall return \uA "< ''.^^"t ^\^ I'ad eonie to the time when "The
their heads ; and ^o:^:^^!.^^^^^^ '::. ■" VrT^ '"" 'T'''''^^' j"'>' "'-"
the midst of this dream tint started V. , " ,' '""' J^'-<''"'^i'Ur it was tliat in
i.ad now under the nion-;; "h^ an ^ 2 b. ' spe d ;;"""'-'^ '«"'— ^ Helhi, and
pushed back the door of the raii:^ar a.^Z:;iT;:;, o^ rj::;tT''"' "^ ^""'"""^
OTH.
CHAPTKR \XX1I.
CITY OF ELEPHANTS.
lif i
G
MIv first tliin,!^ that strikes \ou at JcNporc is tlie (.■Icpliant. {lis ancestors were
hrou.i^lit over from Ceylon and have been doniesiicated, and lie here now dcis
the office of the liorse or the ox. A stranj^e-lookini;- heinj;- is the elephant as lie
passes n]) and down the streets nf Jeypore. Now he is harnessed to a cart, now
aj,rroiip of laborers are on his back, or a company of pleasnrisls, althon,i;h Americans Wd
as soon think of hiring a canal
boat for a ]iicnic.
Jeyi)ore is the most s]iirite(
cil\- of India. It has street >.;as
and electric lights. Its architec-
tnre is of peac'i-blow color. Us
inhabitants are gay. More langhter
n ds along its streets than is seen
and heard elsewhere. Its main
street is one hundred and eleven
leet wide, and two miles long,
SIIIUA'S m'I,I„ CARVKD VROM SOLID KOCK. MVSOUi;.
TMt' bnll is rule t) ft lie sacreil aniniiils of Hiiuluo iujUioId^n'. statin^ ni w liith a if pl.u-ol lui the out^wio of temples of Si
lielieveil by Itraliiiiins that all journeys taken by the gad an- upon the back (jf that .animal. The richest seulpturei
India is illiistiateil above N it niere coincitlence that the b'fi\ pliaii'' \a laialed the bull (.\pis) and that the Israelites wuvsIuik i
golden call.'
and has a commingling to which nothing could be added. Chickens, pigeons, do^^.s,
camels, donkeys, elephants, witli iiere and there a mnzzled leopard, to .say not';;'-:.^'
of the people dancing, chalTering, joking, rnnning, lor.nging, fi.sticnffing. Right out oil
ancestors wen-
llcrc now (has
L'k']iliaiit as ln'
to a cart, ncA-
icricans wmild
inpk's ot si\-.i I ' i'^
t .--LUlptnrcMl ' : II
■at'Iittjs wurslup^ i
pit;;coiis, iin,^s
r say iiot';;''^
Riglit out uu
302
THE EARTH GIRDLED.
Hie street tlie people make slioes, and winnow wheat, and <,Mn cotton, and spin thread, and
twist ropes, and print cotton <joods, and shave citizens (both shaver and sliaved squat
on the ground).
While yon are watchinf>: in most amused condition, there passes yon witli loud
shout the forerunner of some dignitary, riding on gaily caparisoned horse, sword
jingling at liis side. We visited the stables of the Maharaja, or king, for in addition to
owning several hundred elephants, he has two hundred and fifty horses. Kach horse has a
groom, who rattles off admiringly the pedigree of his charger, and slee])s in an opening
right above his horse. ICacli liorse has not only a halter, but each foot is tethered. vSour-
of them were grand specimens, and looked well, harnessed or mounted ; but any day in
Hyde Park, London, or Central I'ark, New York, or I'ros])ect Park, Brooklyn, you can find
THIC I'RINCH OK WAI.KS .STARTIXO ON A Ut'NT
horses with more graceful arch of neck, and more brilliant flame of eve, and more beantilul
round of limb, and more exquisite touches of color.
The suburbs of Jeypore are worth a visit. The desert on one side is making stron-
invasion upon the citv, and houses and gardens are being conquered b\- the sands driving
in, until they are in some places forty or fifty feet deep. But yon ride out a couple of mil."
in another direction, and you reach " The Temple of the ,Sun," standing on a liill tluvr
hundred and fifty feet high. The Temple is not as radiant as its name indicates, but the
view from its steps is so far-reaching and striking that the city of Jeypore seems to throw its
crowns of splendor to your feet.
By all means visit the Zoological and P>otanic Gardens. Here \ou see that intert^t-
ing creature called the man-eater, the tiger who prefers human flesh, and notiiing ei>e
THE WORLD AS SEEN TO-DAY.
lore beau ti till
303
roasted, or fried, or baked is so delicious tl.at be will not prefer a nnn raw Tbo.. f
inena<rcries Tliere is-, H.rr, . 1 , , ' ''''" ^"^ ^''^''^y ^'^'^^'" out for tbe
heiusf ^ "-^ ^'^'■' '^■''" ^'''' '^'' '■^■I'"^^^'--' "f I'aviug eateu fifteen Inunau
Tbe impression tbat tliese tigers prefer bnn.an fiesb a1,ove all else nnv bowever
■i ite T ."vV \ to look at. I stirred tbeni np in all tbe zoological .wardens I
<^ r 1 cov U venl?' '"" V. '" "^^" '" ^"""^^ ^" ^'^^ ^^ "•^- ^" ^^^ "^^'■^^ « ^P He
" The- wise make failure wiual to success,"
" Do nauglit to others which if .lone to thee
Would cause thee pain ; this is tlie sum of duty."
" lie onlv iloes not live in vain,
Who all the means within hi,s reach
ICmploys, his wealth, his thouKht, his speech,
I ' adv.iuce the good of other men."
" Like threads of silver .seen UiroUKh crystal beads,
lA't love through good <lee,ls .show."
" .\ man obtains a proper rule of action
By looking on his neighbors as himself"
..r whicl, tl,e citv w,s w, i° de f n „ V ' ^ ■^•"'■r,™"-"f ■ •"".- "■« ...a....fact„re
.■...craklK, wi,l.h nr.. „..i..„.,. n.biel T," ™,era,df ■" "°"' """" '"'* '"" "*'"' """
M-.l.inh""'rr!;;-""''r',*'°"'' "'■■"'"■ ■■''-■""■■= 'l""»«"ic bv seeing the palace of ,l,e
..)« nX 't ,, ^; ^ ' ,' ^^'"'' ""= ""•■" '"'P""^ "'« 8".ealoKical table, it i, „o
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304
THE KARTH GIRDLKD.
man for an ancestor tliaii tlic s'.ui, for tliat is onlv a l)last furnace on a larj^e scale. For
forty-fonr years did Je\ Sinj^li rei^n in India.
Tliere h\vv also been reniarkal)le women in tin-. countr\-. I'Mfd'en thousand of tlieui
connnitted suicide after an nnforttnuite battle rather than come into the ])ossei-.sion of a
ruffian soldier\-. The ])resenl Maharaja, now thirt\-six years of age, was a jioor e.viled bo\ .
I'Ut the previous ruler liavin>r no son adopted this exile, and the people proclaimed him
Maharaja, and lie is rnlin.t,' well in a palace which is a bewitchment of beauty. It is made
up of seven stories of resplendent architecture. When the drauj^htsman dreamed that
]M-ion;si-: carriaci-: and pair.
palace he must have been asleep in a <;arden, had his head on a pillow of roses, his fan
turned toward a summer sunset, tlic <;roves near-by filled with chant of bird orchestra. Tin
eye climbs fron: marble step to lattice<l balcony, and from latticed balcony to oriel, and from
oriel to arch, and from arch to roof, and then descends on ladder of all colors, and bv stair>
of perfect lines to imperial i^ardeus of iiouiej^ranate and pineapple. What a transition fm
the exiled Ijov from a hut to a structure that seems built out of clouds, and flower <;arden-.
and enchantments celestial and terrestrial !
lint the Maharaja is himself not at all ethereal or fairy-like. Stout in body, a little
under tlie average stature of men, face a ])leasant dull, with affluence of Ijcard from ear tc
THE WORLD AS vSEHN TO-DAY.
305
car and down undi.'r the lower
aw, w
the JMisjlisli
liile a nui.staclK' Iioverso\i.'r thick li])s. He is a clever
ic
Mini, both HI tlie Jvn,L;lisii and .\niencan sense ,
he moves in procession tlie i)op\ihuions rnn wiUl witli enthnsiasni, and even the ele]ilianl.-
n
seem to -,rive an ai)plan(lin<,r lla]) to their awkward ears. The military at his connnand are
1000 artillerymen, 4500 cavalry, and 16,(100 infantry, so that whether for pnrposes of warlike
(lelence, or pom]) parade, the Maharaja is not helpless.
In the nci^rl,l),,rhood of Jeyi^ore is a depopulated city called Amber. The strange fact is
that a ruler abandoned liis palaces at Amber and moved to Jeypore, and all the inhabitants
ol" the city followed. I-:\ce])t here and there a house in Ami)er (iCcupied bv a hermit, the
oitv is as silent a p()])nlati()n as Pompeii or Herculaneinu ; but those cities were emi'itied
by volcanic disaster, while this city of .\mber was vacated because Prince Jev .Siu.t;h was
told by a Hindoo prie.st that no cit^ should be inhabited more than a th()U>and years.'^and .so
the ruler one hundred and seveutv years a-o moved out him.self, and all his peo])le' moved
with him.
You visit .\mber on the back of an ele])hant. Permission obtained for vonr visit the
day before at Jeypore, an elephant is in waitiufr for ytm about six miles out to take you up
the steeps U> Amber. If you oet seasick cro.ssin<,r the Atlantic, voii will probably oet
elephant .sick b>- the swayinjr of the mon.ster as yon a.scend to the dead citv of And)er. \\>u
pass throush the awfully cpiiet streets, all the feet that tro.l them in the davs of their activity
havinj,- ,^;one on the lon<r journey, and the voices of business and .t^ayetv that .scmnded amid
these abodes havin,^- nuany \ears a^o uttered their last svllable. Wnx pass b\- a lake cover-
m'^ five hundred acres, where the rajahs used to sail in their jileasnre bo.ils, but allij^ators
now have fidl possession, and you come to the abandonc'd palace, which is an inehant-
nient. No more picturesque place was ever chosen for the residence of a monarch. The
fortress above looks down upon this palace, and the jialace looks down upon a lake. This
inonarchial abode may have had attractions when it was the home of r.Aaltv, which have
vanished, but antiquity and the silence of nuiny years, and oi)portuuitv to tread where once
von would not have been permitted to tread, may be an addition quite e(iual to the sub-
traction.
I will not jro far into a description of brazen doorway after brazen doorwav, and carved
room after carved room, and lead you under embellished ceiliu,-;- after embellished ceilint,^
and thron,<rh halls precions-.stoned into wider halls precious-stoned. Whv tire out \-our
inia-ination with the particulars when you ma\- sum up all by saviu.n that on the slopes of
that hill in India are pavilions deeply dyed, tasseled and arched ? the fire of colored -ardens
cnokd bv the snow of white architecture; bath-rooms that refresh before your fee? touch
their marble; birds in arabesque so natural to life, that while von cannot hear their xoices
yon ima.iviue you see the flutter of their win.irs while you are' passino- ; stoneware translu-
cent ; walls pictured with huutinq; .scene, and triumphal procession, and joustiuo jiarty ;
rooms that are called '^■\lcove of Lii,dit," and " Court of Honor," ami " Hall of \'?ctorv;''
marble, white and black, like a mi.Kture of morninjr and ui<>lit ; .alabaster, and laequer-
w.)rk, and mother-of-pearl : all that architecture, and sculpture, aiul painliu-, and horticul-
ture can do when the>- put their ,t,^enius together was done here in a.^es ]xist, and much of
their work >itill stands to absorb and entrance archaeolo<,Mst and sij^ht-.seer.
Hut what a solemn and stupendous thin<;- is an abandoned city. While many of the
peoples of earth have no roof for their head, here is a whf>le city of roofs rejected. The
sand of the desert was .sufficient excuse for the disappearance of Heliopolis, and the watcr.s
ot the Mediterranean Sea for the en<rnlfinent of T> re, and the lava of IMount Vesuvius for
20
3o6
THK KARTPi (ilRDLHD.
tlic obliteration of Herculancmii ; l)tit for the sake of iiotliiiijj: l)ut a superstitious wliiiu tii<
city of Aiuher is al)aii<loiK'(l forever. Oil, wondrous India! The discarded city of Ainlx i
is only one of the marvels which compel the npliftinj,' hand of surprise from the day yoii
cuter India luitil the day you leave it. Its flora is so aromatic and flamboyant ; its fauna so
monstrous and sava^a' ; its ruins so sn<,r<festive ; its idolatry so horrible; its de<i;radation so
sickeniu^r ; its uiiueralo<,ry so brilliant ; its splendors so irradiatinjr ; its architecture .so old,
so fj^rand, so educational, so multipotent, that India will not be fully comprehended unM
science has made its last experiment, and exploration has ended its last jourue\-, and the
library of the world's literature has closed its last door, and Christianity has made its la.st
achievement, and the Clock of Time lias struck its last hour.
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Hnii. Physician to Her Majesty Queen Victoria,
who accompanied the Princeof Wales, as liis nuil-
ical adviser, on his trip to India.
WQs
oils wliiin tilt
•Aty of Aiiilii 1
1 tlie day yon
; ; its fauna s(.
e<i;rarlation so
cctnre so old,
'hended uiU'l
[nicy, and tlit.'
. made its last
CHAI'TKR XXXIII.
THE FIRE WORSHIPERS.
// T ^' '''^^■^" •''^^" ^'"-^ Parsccs! The prophet of the Parsees was Zoroaster of Persia
#11 He was poet, and pliilosopher, and reformer, as well as reljojonist. His disci-
\\A P'^-' ^'■"^•'^fl ^^ fi>'^t in Persia, hnt under Mohammedan persecntion thev retreated
to India, where I met them, and in addition to what I saw of thJm at their
headquarters here, I had two weeks of association with one of tlie most learned and
genial of their people on shipboard from Honihay to lirindisi.
The Bible of the Parsees, or fire-worshipers as thev are inaecuratch- called is the
Zend-Avesta, a collection of the strangest books that ever came into mv hands Tlie're were
un-inally twenty-one volumes, but Alexander the (ireat, in a drunken fit set fire to a palace
which contained some of them, and they went into ashes and forgetfnlness. Put there are
more ol their sacred volumes left than most people would have jjatience to read. There
are many thin.<,rs in the re-
ligion of the Parsees that
suggest Christianity-, and
some of its doctrines are in
accord with our own n-
lit^ion. Zoroaster, who lived
about fourteen hundred
years before Christ, was a
good m;;i], suffered perse-
cution for his faith, and
was assassinated while wor-
shiping at an altar. He
announced the theory " He
is best who is pure of
heart ! " and that there are
two great spirits in the
world, ( )rmuzd, the good
spirit, and Ahriman, the
bad spirit, and that all who
do right are under the influ-
PARSEES' TOWKK OF SII.IINCK, BOMBAY.
(lice of Onnii7f1 .>„rl nil 1 1 f'onglit are under the influ-
could piibly s;ifll^ 'bu n ";,^^ thr""f "'T '""' ''' '''' '"^'""^ >^"^ ^"«^^''-
F > uncr, out al the end of three days departing for its final destinv ; and
(3"7)
3o8
THK KARTH OIRDLKD.
that tluri- will hv a rc.siirii.i.lion of tlu- 1>
Tht-y
an more cart
fill t!
ail aiiv olliii
ii
])(.oi>lc ahoiil lluir ahliitious, aiul tlay \va>li, and wash, and wa>li, Tluy pay .^n.'
allLiition to pln^ical liuiltli, and it is a raiu tliiii;,r to sec a sick I'arscc. They do not
SllloUc
tol
)acci 1,
ir thcv consider that ,i misuse of fire. At the close of mortal life tli
sold ajjpears at the lirid.i^e Chinvat, where an an,i;el presides, and (jneslioiis the sniil alioul
the thoiiLjhts, and words, and deeds of its carthlx staie. Xotliins^, lu)wcver, is more intense
in the I'arsee faith than the theory that the dead Ixxly is impure. .\ devil is snppo.sed t(<
take possession of the dead Ixjdy. .Ml who touch it are nnclean and hence the .-.tranjrfst\!i.
of obsequies. l>ut lure 1 must .i^ive three or four questions and answers from one of th
I'arsee catechisms :
Qiicshttii : Who is the most fortunate man in the world?
.■liis-ii.'ir : lie wdio is the most innocent.
Question : Who is the most innocent man in the world?
Aiisuur : lie who walks in the path of (lod and .shuns that of the devil.
Oiirs/ii'ii : Which is the path of (iod, and wliich that of the devil?
Aiis^i'cr : \'irtuc is the jiath of (Iod, and vice that of the devil.
Oiicslioii ; What constitutes virtue, and what vice ?
Aiisrcrr : (iood thou,i;hts, <;()od words, and <.;ood deeds constitute virtue, and evil
thou<;hts, evil words, and evil deeds constitute vice.
(JiKslioii : What constitute good thouylits, good words, and good deeds, and evil
thoughts, evil words, and evil dee is ;
.liiswri- : Ilonestv, charity, a/. 1 truthfulness constitute the former; and dishoiieslv,
want of charity, and falsehood .oiistiintc the latter.
And now the better to show y-m these Parsecs, I tell \ on of two things I saw within a
short time in Uombay, India. It wn.s an afternoon of contrast.
We started for Malabar Mill, on which tlic wealthy classes have their cuibowered lionu-.
and the Parsees their strange Temple of the Dead. As we rode along the water's edge the
sun was descending the sky, and a disciple of Zoroaster, a Parsee, was in lowly posture
and with reverential gaze looking into the sky. He would have been .said to have been
worshiping the sun, as all Par.sees are .said to worship the fire. Hut the intelligent Parsee
docs not worship the fire. He looks upon the sun as the emblem of the warmth and liglit
of the Creator. Looking at .a blaze of light, wdiether on hearth, on mountain height, or in
the skv, he can more easily bring to mind the glory of God : at least, so the Parsees tell uu.
Indeed, thcv are the j^leasautest heathen I have met. They treat their wives as equals, while
the Hindoos and I'.uddhists treat tliem as cattle ; although the cattle, and sheep, and swine
are better off than most of the women of India.
This Parsee on the roadside on our way to Malabar Hill was the only one of that
religion I had ever .seen engaged in worship. Wiio knows but that beyond the light of the
sun on which he gazes he may catch a glimpse of the (iod wdio is Light, and "in whom
there is no darkness at all ! "
We ]-)assed on up through gates into the garden that surrounds the place where the
Par.sees dispose of tlieir dead. This garden was given by Jamshidji Jijibhai, and is beautiful
with flowers of all hue, and foliage of all styles of vein, and notch and stature. There i-
on all sides great opulence of fern and cyjiress. The garden is one hundred feet above the
level of the sea. Not f;ir from the entrance is a building where the mourners of the funeral
procession go in to prav. .'\ light is here kept burning year in and ye.ir out. We ascend
the garden by some eight stone steps. The body of a deceased aged woman was beiiii:
THI<: WORLD AS SKKN Tc)-I)AY.
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1 .lll>' otllli
pay ^icat
.'Ir'V do UMl
•tal lil'f llic
L- suiil aliiiiii
iiorc inttriM
sni)i)oscil 1(1
»lninj;e st\ !<.
I one of til
ariifd in tDuanl tlu' cliitf "'rower of Sile
iK-e.
c, and evil
ds, and evil
dislioiiestv ,
■aw within ^
,'ered lionu -,
M''s edj^e ilic
)wly ])()stu''
have been
i.ijent I'arsee
th and li,L;lit
lici,<;ht, or in
■sees tell nu-.
equals, while
:>, and swine
• one of tliat
lioht of iIk
1 " in whom
:e where Uk-
1 is beantiful
e. There i^
et above the
f the funeral
We ascend
m was beiii'j
There are five of these towers. Several
oi them have not been used for a lon^-^ while. l'"our persons, whose business it is to do this,
carry in the corpse. They are followed b\ two nun with lon;r beards. 'IMie Tower of
Silence, to which they come, cost ,<I50,<)()(-), .ind is twenty-five feet lii.yh, and two hundred
and se\ euty-si\ feel around, and without a roof. Tin- four carriers of the di^ad and tlu- two
bearded men come to the door of tlic Tower, entir and leave the ilead. There are three
CROUND PLAN
OF A
TOWER OK SILENCE
VTEW or th"^^TERIOR,
rows of places for the dead : the omer row f the men, the middle row for the women, the
inside row for the children. The lifeless bodies are left exposed a.s far down as the waist.
As soon as the employes retire from the Tower of Silence, the vultures, now one, now two,
now many, swoop upon the lifeless form. These vultures fill the air with their dis-
cordant voices. We saw them in louf^ rows on the top of the white-washed wall of the
Tower of Silence. In a few minutes they have taken the last particle of flesh from the
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astnuu{,li stufLitc.l. liicy sonu-tinics carry away witli tliem parts of a l.odv uid it ^
blc J-lcf ' ThoT f ''"' TT' '■'• ' ""'"' '"'° ^'''^''' ^'-^ '^°"^'^ ^'^' "'^--„ after they ar.
bkacUcI he liot sun, and tl,e ra.ny season, and charcoal do tlicir work of disinteerat,'o,
r' ^^■"■"---^:""' -"1 t>-" there are sluices that carry into the sea what ren.a n o t ,e d a
CAR OF jrcoERNArr.
.'.^■fii-^-.->-#-f'fei
^Hvi:;x;'":;:: :ui:;::!;ni::fr ;:,:;::;:;';::'.:;[,:;- -'-;..:;i:;;^ :^^,:::;"^'^i,""^ -" ;r '"t^"' -' -■" --^ "p- ^ <■.-
The wealthy people of Malabar Mill have made strenuous efforts to have these strange
?^Z^:^-T '' ""■^'^"T- '"'^ ^"^^>- -"-"' --1 -'■- <lo doubt, for a,es renuai" '^
I talked with a learned Parsee about th.ese n.ortuarv customs. He said " I sunno^e
you consider then, very peculiar, but the fact is we Parsees reverence the elen ents of3
and cannot consent to defile then. We reverence the fire, and therefore will .lot ask it to
THE WORLD AS SKKX TO-DAY. ,,,
hiirii our dead. \Vc reveniirc ili.. u.it..v ,,, i i . i •
..vcroncc .„. .,n„, a,„l J '.r, ., M ', , ;;;,';; „f •' "• »"'«■-«'■ - f-l. "e
.1.-" -v„>." H. co„r,r,„„l „K. in ih. .!,„,', 1, L,;^, , "," "". '' "'>' """'' '»'^=
.k-ad are m,ck,,„. X„ „,„. „„„e to„cl, sm. 1 'n ' '"""'''''■' ""' "'=
Silence " „.„s, „„. „„. ,„eir ..an.":!, ""'L .;,',:;„. "'' Ti,'::'^::,;;' ;"'» "•'• "f
especially for ,lKM„arria„:cere„Z We;:.. er;,.r
were straiisrers and were ciinoiw to c»„ k, i . uair \ocaijniai\ , we told lliem we
wc worked o,u- w.n- , d oc^- T T ■?• '™":' /"""" ""'" '"''^'■'^'^^- ^''-'-^"v
Imndreds of candles re Uses t"',., '"•.'l^^'".^?""' ^he surrou„din.,.s wen- ilhunined hv
Hon .u, hi,,.. ancn:,;,^^r;- :;;--":-;■ .;;;>^- -1 ^;-n;e ..oldi,„s. Conversa.
a'ivanci,!, hand of „n,sie. I,„t the instr u , '/, T \ ''"' '' '"""^' '"' '''"
a.Hieves. Louder and lo uler\ X V / " '""'' '■"■' '"'''"^ slrauoe to our ears
HKntsuntilthe m^e. >^h^^^^^ outs.de vo.ees, aud the uiud aud stringed iustru-
.n-n, with a plat t d <1 u t ' ■ 'T"-^'"'' ''''^^- '^^''^' ""'^'■^■'- "'" ^''^^ '^•■i'l-
l>-'.u, to add e s ,, T '''^\'''r ""' '''''^'' "'" ^'^•"'' '^^'"'''-"■•t-l Ik." son and
^n:ia^::^ZZJrtST it ^"^/^'^^"^-^ •-'^•'^ or pemnneand sprinted
"latter a handf 1 of ' ' h" ' !• ' '''''''""•^' '" ''' ^''■"'""^' ^""^' '^'"^ ^""1^ '><-" the
.i,..f fi , , . ! 1-;"P Pacn other. A white curtain was dropped between them so
tl
liey could not see eacii ot!
icr. Then the attendants put tliei
ir arms under tliis curtail
312
THK KARTH GIRDi.ED.
TlK-u n nm' „f tlu .. ,• ^ '7'"""' """ •"'- ''^■•^i'l^' ^''^'t of the o-,,.,,,,,
» iKu a pii(.-,i ,)i iiic laiM.v ivli.L,M(.!i .iri)se r.u, (a-vil the roin.l,. i>, r ,- .1
!>'-•-' ^' 1>'^'U-- '•'- -c. IL. ,..,au to a,l.lrcss tl.e ; ,„ '".u w.!; 7 W T^T, "'^
luar a Nv.-nl, hat wc nndasto,.,! just as uvU as if we l,.rd , , ?"''' ""'
I i M i\S
I n^ the couple a happv hie in each utherV cn,„pa„ionsl,ip, we presse.l o,„- wav throu..!,
l.e th:on.- c>f cununUuIaturv Parsees. All of then, see.ned I,ri,ht and appreciativ „ ,h
occa^.„. 1 he streets outsi.le jovonsly sv,„pathi.e,l with th. tnmsactions'inside
We rode on toward our hotel wishino- that ,narria,t,rr i„ all India nii-dit be as nnicl,
honored as ,n the ceren.onv we had that evenin,, witnessed at the Parsee ; , i ,T T
ndoo won,en are not so n.arried. They are sin.pl v cnrsed into the conjugal relation"^' M
o he „ds are nuu-r.ed at seven and ten years of a,e, and son.e of then .uv .randn th
^m>^i ■ " "'^^'^■•-^^■^'^■"t are theirs. If they become Christians they becon,.
A missionary told me in India of a Hin.loo woman who became a Christian Sl>.
had mne clnldren Her husband was o^er seventy vears of aoe. A^d e u I
Chr.st,an bapt.sm he told her to ,.,, and she went out,' homeless. As lo n'aswo n/^
t^^nnP;:^ '""■"•• ''^"^'*"" ^^^'^ ^^-^ ^^--^ed except through tl^de^I.;
Ta H npr i^nnen^^rr " "' '"■'^"^^'"'^"^ "" "^^00 n.arriage ; but Christian n.arria.e
lb an impi()\enient on Parsee marna"-e.
11(1 the .a^rnoiii, i;-.
iu,^.S WLMV WilIUKI
'111 tlircw a haiiM-
llf IVSpOluli'il l.\
Tlk-ivni'oi) [h,^■
It of the ,L;n)(,iii.
:■(-' tlic pn'c-^l \\M^
\\\- could lln'.
<1 aiiDii lie panc-
plattu- and flun-
>ii intenuiuahK.
s^-o on for a loi,^'
llk^ '^llfl this \v;i^
-V'ss after a wln'lc
'<■'■ We eujovi. !
uiony. Sileiulv
iir way thrnn-li
ivciative of ilic
■iide.
>:ht be as imicli
iveddiiiir, 'piii^.
elation. M,m\
randniothers at
1. They nni-t
lis they become
hristian. She
d yet at lur
? as \voma!i ;s
le elevation oi
stian niarria're
THK WORLD AS Si;iC\ TO-DAV. ,.3
.o.efa":;::;::::::;';;:;',;:;;:;;;^:,;;;;, ;;: ;:;,::;■ rT "■ "" 'rr '^--" -'■-
si,..,^::r s,:; ^7i\« h;:';-;!:;, 'rzr ttt ' '""•" '"^ ■'■™>"^ -
eoi.oN-NAi)).:— •MxrrAiii.i:siT\v\R.
Compare the absurdities and unininKries of heathen nu
't Christian niarr
laae,
tlK
Hands jouied m pled-e "till death d.
na.i^e with the plain, " I
wil
o you part.
C(
iiupare
3M
THE KARTH GIRDLED.
'r
the (k,ctnnc tliat tlic dead ,„a>- n..l he t..uclK,I, will, as sacR.l, and tculer, ami lovinjr a kis,
as ,s cvcv .s^iven, tl,e last kiss of lips that lavcr a^ain will speak tons. Compare the.iarn.w
.Hnd-e Chinvat over which the departing I'arsee soul iiuist trembliiiglv cross, to the wide
open ,t,rate of heaven tiu-ou-h which the departing; Christian soul n.av triuniphantlv enter
Compare the twenty-one hooks of the Zeu<l-Ave>ta of the I'arsee, which even the scholars ,.i'
the earth despair ol understaudii,- with our liihle, so much of it as is ueces^arv for our
salvation in laii,t,rua-e so plain that "a wayfarin.^r man, tlmii^h a f.ol, need not err ihercin "
Compare the " lower of Silence" with its vultures at Homhav with the " (Ireenwood of
Brooklyn with its sculi.tnred an,i,rels of resurrection. And bow vourself in thanks-nvinn
and prayer as ^..n rcalixe that if at the battles of Marathon and Salamis, l'ersi;i hail
tr.nniphed over (.recce, instca.l of (ireece trinmphin- over Persia, Parseeism, which w.is the
national religion of Persia, mi.^ht have covered the earth, and von and I instead of sittin<.
in the noonday h,o:ht ol our olorions Christianity iiiioht have been oropinj. in the depresC
ing shadows of Parseeism, a religion as inferior to that which is onr inspiration in life and
our hope ,n death, as Zoroaster of Persia was inferior to onr radiant and superhuman
Christ, to whom be honor and glory and dominion and victory and song, world without end.
INai-liCTlu.N- DAV .\T AN KASX I.NUIA 1-KNlTENTIARV
(1 lovino^ a kiss
'are the narrow
ss, to tlie \vi(I(.-
ipliaiitly (.•liter.
tlie scholars ot
ccssar\- for our
it err tlicreii!."
(ireunwood of
tliaiiks<jiviiiii
lis, IVrsia Iiail
which was the
tead of sitting
11 tile depress-
Dii ill life, and
1 supcrhiiiiiaii
1 without end.
CHAI'Tlvk XXXIV.
UNDERSIDE OF INDIA.
^^OMHTIIIXG had we .^een with iiiiiur's candle of the underside of Australia xs
PS* K.nupie ; and soniethiiio. ,„,, ,,, ,,,„ ,, ,,in„.^.„^ ^. ,r,M^u^u' ^
^^ ^.c lUKlersicIe o. A.n.i.i, as in Maninioth Cave ; hut we are now ^^Z ^ u ^
a on, shore, wlu.se curves, and .niches, an.l pictured rocks .radnallv prepare th i„;i ^
I '-la ion o, the inost n.ii.pie spectacle in In<lia. The niornin, had 1 ecu fnl oi' Id"
. H h^htnin,, and delude, hut the atmospheric agitations had ceased, and the clou ^^
t e st..n, were piled up ,n the heavens, hnoe enough and darklv purple eno , ' nZ
he skies as oKuidly picturesque as the earthly .sceiierv amid which we moved -Uter an
honr^nttiu. through the waters we came to the Ion, pier reaching from U^lsla^d l^dl"
Elephaiita. It is an island
small of uirth, l.nt .si.\ hun-
dred feet high. It declines
into the marshes of man-
grove. Hut the whole island
is one tangle of foliage and
verdure : convolvulus creep-
ing the ground, morasses
cliinhing the rocks, vines
sleeving the long arms of
the trees, red flowers here
and there in the woods, like
incendiary's torch trying to
set the groves on fire, cactus
and acacia v\iiigas to which
can most charm the he-
holder, troi)icaI hird meet-
iug parti-colored hutterfly
in jungles ])laiited the same
summerthe world was horn.
Till':
KNTRANCi; To THl.: i:i.i:i.|l.\ NTA eWHS.
a.v hiess^i with two : ; iir; ti'r pi " T "?■ ^'r' -^ ^■"" ^^^'^ ^^•^'^' '^ >■-
Lave .so depreciated tl^e^ .^^ ^^^ """^ r^^^Z^Tt^^^^^ '"i "'' '" '^ """^^ "'^^
a nnn " \ir^ ^ , • -^''^ ^-"1" taketh no i) ca.sure n the len-s nf
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3i6
THK KARTH (WRDLIU).
And iKiw \vi' conic luai llif raiimns tciiiplc, lu wii iVoiii one lock of ])or|)li\n, at leas!
eij4lit luiiulrid xoars a-j^o. On fitlic-r side of ilif cliiif uinplr is a cliapil, ilust.' cut out if
tlic same stone, .So vast was the nndcrtakin,!^, and to the Hindoos was so i^^ieat the human
inipossihiiity tliat they say tlic s^ods scooped out this structuie fiom the roci<, and cai\cd
the pillars, and hewed into shape its oi'^antic idols, and dedicated it to all the .i^iandeurs.
We climl) man\' stone steps liet'ore we j^et to the <;atcways. The entrance to this temple
lias sculptured doorkeejiers leanini'^ on scul])tured devils. How straiij^e ! Hut I have seen
doorkeejiers of churches and auditoriums who seemed to he leaniii<.j on the devils of had
ventilation and aspli\ xia. Doorkeepers ou<;lit to he leaniii,i; on the an>,ads of health, and
comfort, and life. All the sextons and janitors of the earth who have spoiled sermons and
lectures, and poisoned the lun,i,^^ of audiences by inelTiciencv on.i^ht to visit this cave of
Ivlephaiita and beware of what these doorkeepers are doiii", when instead of Icaniiij^on the
an>,;elic they lean on the demoniac. In tliese Elcphanta Caves everythinj^ is on a vSam-
sonian and Titaniaii scale.
With chisels that were
dropped from nerveless
hands at least eif!;ht centuries
a<ro, the forms of the j;ods
lirahnia, and Vi.shnu, and
vSiva were cut into the ever-
lastin<j rock. Siva is here
represented by a fi^^iire six-
teen feet nine inches hit^Ii,
one-half man and one-half
woman. Run a line from
the centre of the forehead
strai<rht to the floor of the
rock, and \ on divide this
idol into masculine and
feminine. Admired as this
idol is by many, it was to me
about the worst thiiii,^ that
was ever cut into jjorpln r\ ,
perhaps because there is hardly anythin.t;- on earth I so much dislike as a bein!.,^ half man
and lialf woman. Do be one or the other, my reader. Man is admiral)le, and woman is
admirable, but either i,i flesh or trap rock a comi)romise of the two is hideous. Save us
from effeminate men and masculine women !
Yonder is the Kin^; Ravana wt)rshii>ini:;. Yonder is the sculptured representation
of the marria,t;e of Shiva and Parhati. Yonder is Daksha, the son of Brahma, born from
the thumb of his ri.^lit hand. He liad sixty dan.^hter.s. How highly blessed he wa> !
Seventeen of those dau<,diters were married to Kasyapa and became the mothers of the
human lace. Yonder is a god with three heads. The centre god has a crown wound with
necklaces of skulls. The right hand god is in a paroxysm t)f rage, with forehead of snakt>,
and in its liand is a cobra. The left hand god has pleasure in all its features and the hand
holds a flower. Hut there are gods and goddesses in all directions. The chief temple nf
this rock is one hundred and tliirty feet square and has twenty-six jiillars rising to the wot.
After the conquerors of other lands, and the tourists from all lands have chipped, and defaced,
A WAi.i, iNsini'; THi; ia.i;i>n anta ca\-i:s.
ri)liyr\ , at least
K-sv cut (iiii ')!"
ival llic liuiiKui
ck, and caiAciI
tlu' iL^raiuKiiis
■ to lliis tfiii|ik-
iut I liavf sciii
c devils of had
111" liealtii, and
d siTiuoiis and
it this cavf ol'
leaniiij^on tlie
is on a .Sani-
ritaniaii scale.
Is that weie
I nerveless
ei<j;liteentniies
IS of the <;(j(ls
Vishnu, and
into the evei-
Siva is here
)y a fi<.';ure six-
e inches hi,ii^li,
and onedialf
1 a line from
the forehead
le floor of tile
n divide this
lascnlinc and
Iniired as this
i\', it was to me
rst thini,^ that
nto por]jhyry,
nu'^ half man
and woman is
■(JUS. Sa\e us
representation
ina, born from
essed he was !
iiothers of the
n wonnd with
ead of snaki ,-,
and the haml
liief temple of
n^r to the roof.
1 and defaced,
3t8
THE KARTH CIRDLHD.
and blasted, and carried away curios and nicinciitucs for niuscmus and homes, there are
enouj^rh entrancenients left to detain one, unless lie is cautious, until he is down with sonu
of the malarias which eiiconii)ass this island, or j,rets bitten by some of the snakes. \\a, I
feel the chilly dampness of this place, and must leave this coni^ress of j^ods, this pandenid-
nium of demons, this pantheon of Indian deities, and come to the steps and look off updu
the waters which roll and flash around the steam yacht that is waitinjj to return us t..
nonibay. As we stepjied aboard, our mind fdled with the idols of the Klephanta Caves, 1
was impressed as never before with the thought that man must have a relij,non of soiiu
kind, even if he has to c(mtrive one himself, and he must have a «od, even though he make
it with liis own hand. I rejoice to know the day will come when the one (led of the
universe will be acknowledjjed throu<,diout India.
That eveninjjj „f („ir return to Hombay I visited the YounR Men's Christian Association
with the same appointments that you find in the Yomi-r Men's Christian A.ssociaticms of
Europe and America, and the ni<,dit after that I addressed a throujr of native children who
are in the schools of the Christian missions. Christian universities },'ather under their win^
of benedicti(m a liost of the yonn},r men of this country. Hombay and Calcutta, the two
great commercial cities of India, feel the elevatint; power of an ag^^ressivc Christianitv .
Kpiscopalian liturj,'y, and I'resb) teriau Westminster Catechism, and Methodist anxious-seat,
and Haptist waters of consecration now stand where once basest idolatries had undisputirl
sway. The work which shoemaker Carey inaujriiratcd at Serampore, India, translatin<; tht-
Bible into forty different dialects, and leavin<,r his worn-out body amid the nati\es whom lie
had come to .save, and jjoint,^ np into the heavens from which he can better watch all the
field — that work will be completed in the .salvation of the millions of India : and beside
him, <,^^zin<^• from the .same hiyh places, stand Hishop Heber, and Alexander Duff, and Jolm
Scudder, and Mackay, who fell at Delhi, and Moncrieff, who fell at Cawnpore, and "I'nK-
hampton, who fell at Lucknow, and Freeman, who fell at Futty<,dinr, and all heroes and
heroines who, for Christ's .sake, lived and died for the Chri.stianization of India : and tlui;
heaven will not be complete until the (;an<;es that w:ishes the j^liats of heathen tenlpl^^s
shall roll between churches of the livino- (Jod, and the trampled womanhood of HindooiMii
shall have all tlieri<,dits pnrcha.scd bv Him, who amid the cuts and .stabs of His own assassinii-
tion, cried out : " Behold thy mother ! " and from Henjjal Ray to Arabian Oce.in, and from
the Himalayas to the coast of Coromaudel there be lifted ho.sannas to Him who died to
redeem all nations. In that day Klephanta Cave will be one of the places where idols arc
"cast to the moles and the bats." If any cler<ryiiian asks me, as an nnbelievinj; ministen.f
re'.i^non once asked the Duke of Wellin<,'ton, "Do you not think that the work of convert-
injr the Hindoos is all a fanatical farce?" I answer him as Wellinoton answered the luilt-
lievin<r minister : " Look to your marching orders, sir ! " Or if any one having joined in the
Go.spel attack feels like retreating, I say to him, as (General Havelock .said to a retrcatini,^
regiment, "The enemy are in front, not in the rear," and leading them again into the fij^lit.
though two horses had been shot under him.
CHAI'TKR XXXV
THE PVRAMIO.
tl.c skies were filled with angds orhe , tv , n T T r ' "" " '"'' ''''' ''''' ""'' '-^"'l
an American J„„e. Tl.e next „o „ i . "-'''f "^ ^'^^'"' ^"■•' ^''^' ''■'• ^^••''« ='-^ ''^^'-'y as
upon pain, trees i„ fu I L'lorv . ' -. . ''' '' •' '''"''' '"'^ ''^^ ^''^' ^^•'"''••^^•' >-^''^i"K'
l.as K...ie down in tl.e eqni- p— ^l!f! ^''^^ ^-^ ^^"^^ ^'^'^'^ -^"^^ ^^'^^ last leal of the forest
noctials. But liow can I
(iescrihe tlie thrill of ex-
I)ectation, for to-day we
are to see what all the
world has seen or wants
to see— the Pyramids! We
are mounted for an hour
and a half's ride. We pass
oil amid bazaars stuffed
with niusaud car])ets, and
curious fabrics of all sorts
from Smyrna, from Al-
Rifis, from Persia, from
Turkey, and tliroujjh
streets where we meet
people of all colors and all
garbs, carts loaded with
garden productions
fel*. The road „e 3t fo ";°"^r/^ b„Balo.,on ei,l,c.rsid.,br„wsi„Rl„ „a»t„re
tave reached the ^S 'f e d^« T " T f ''■■'"' f "'=' ""^ '""''• """"^ A"'! « =
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Sl'KZ CANAr, AND SfKZ TOWN.
321.)
TIN'; ivAkTii (;iRi)i,i-;i).
deti'Viniiirition was sliakfii. Its alliuuk- to iiie was siiu])ly aiipalliii^-. A jjrcat lici,si:lit lias
always been lo iiic a most (lisa.i^VLcal)!!.' sc-iisatiou. As we (lisniouutL'd at tlie base of the ]i\' i-
aii'l I said, " ( )tli(.rs iiiav .^o up it, l)Ut imt I. I will satisfy myself with a \if\v fiom the b,,- .
The ascent of it would be to me a foolhardv uiideitakii
lint after I liad yiveii ni
idea of asceiidiii"-, I found mv (laii"hter was determined to <j(i, and I could not let lu r
with strangers, aiK
1 I
chan''ed mv mind and we started with "tiides. It cannot be
(!^ IK'
witliout til
ese hel|)er-
Two or three tiuR'S fooll
iarci\-
men ha\e attennited it
their bodies came Inmblin.','- down nureeoiMiizaljle and !ifeU>'
alone,
I Car!
u'ii person m our p.
had two or three j.piides or helpers. One of them unrolled his turban and tied it annnui my
:• oldest stnutr
ti(kr tin.' sliiul'.
\\) ,111(1 >traiii I,'
" 'riif l'\ i.iiiii'
/i-aiuiii. < nir ..I
lilif wniiiKr, liiii
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fjrcat Iiei,q;]it 'la
hasc of tln' ]i\ '
V hoiii the 1m-
lad <>ivtii iiji ii
d not let lu r '<
lot !
cannot hi.- (!■ nr
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ed it aroniid iiiv
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THE WORLD AS SHKX TO-DAV
321
waist, and lie hd,! the other cnl of thv turban as a matter of .alVtv. Manv „r tlic l.Iucl s
of >tone are lour or five Icet I.i^l. and I,eyond anv ordiuarvI„„nan stride' unless assisted
.:> , two Arabs to pull and two Arabs to push, I found n.vseif rapid! v ascen<lin., fron, hei-dU
to i.eiKdit, and o„, to altitudes terrific, and at last at the tip top we h.und .nuselves Z a
eve space of about thn-tv feet square. Throuoh clearest atn.osphere we lo„ke,l .,ff upon
ti.e desert, and he Splunx wUh Us features of everla^tin,,. stone, and von<ler upon the n iu-
aatsol _Cairo_ghttenns,nthesun,and yonder upon Men.phis in ruins, and olT upon the
wreck o cn,p>rcs and the battlefields of ages, a radius of view enou,h to fill the nn' ul and
overwhelm one s entire bcni<;.
After lookinn^aroundfora while, and a kodak had pictured the .,. roup, we .lescended.
Ihed scent was n.orctryn,^ than the ascent, fi.r cHmbin,^ von need not see the depths
beneath, but comuv^ down it was impossible not to see the abvsms below. I]ut two Arabs
ahead to help us down,
and two Arabs to hold
us back, we were low-
ered, hand below hand,
until the j,n-ound was
iuvitin,<i;ly near, and
amid tiie jar},ron of the
Arabs we were safely
landed.
I said the domi-
nant color of the pyra-
mid was gray, but in
certain lights it seems
to shake ofTtlie gray of
centuries and become
a blonde, and the silver
turns to the golden. It
covers thirteen acres of
S^Tonnd. What an an-
tiquity ! It was at least
two thousand j ears old
when the baby Christ
was carried within
GRKAT PYRAMID— SPHIN'X.
In ,lwi > -I ^\^T'.''' I^f ^"^•^' J°^^Pl^ ''^"'1 ^^-^y- '1^1'e storn,s of fortv centttries have
d.enched ,t, bombarded ,t, shadowed it, flashed upon it, but there it stands readv to take
another forty centuries of atmospheric attack if the world should continue to exist
he oldest buildings of the earth are juniors to this great senior of the centuries
erodo us says that for ten years preparations were being made for the building of this
inranud. It has eighty-two million one hundred and eleven thousand cubic feet of
inwoury. One hundred thousand workmen at one time toiled in its erection To
.un,^ the stone from the quarries a eausewav sixt^• feet wide was built. The top stones
u e ,f ed by machinery such as the world knows nothing of to-day. It is seven liundred
1 fbry-six feet each sule of the scpiare base. The struct,ire is four hundred and
't^ leet h,gh, higher than the cathedrals of Cologne, Strasbnrg, R(,uen, St. Peter's and St
aul s. \o surprise to me that it was put at the head of the Seven Wonders of the World"
ar
2,22
THE EARTH GIRDLED.
It has a snhUTraiR'ous room of ivd j^raiiitc called the " Kino's
called the " Queen's Chaiuher," and the probability is that ~lh
Chamber," and another rou
lere are other rooms vet luu
was to make these n^oms a<
s maecess
ibk
blastm
.l^', II \()U Wdl-
plored. The evident desi,L;n of the architect
possible. .Vfter all the work of e\i)Ioration and all the di;,'L;in<; and
enter these subterraneous rooms you must "o thron.L^di a passa.i^e onlv three I'eet elew
inches Iiioh and less than four feet wide. A snrcophaous of red 'granite stands down unci-
tins mountain of masonry. The sarcopha-us could not have been carried in after the jni,-
niid was built. It nnist have been i)ut there before the structure was reared. Probablv ;r,
that sarcopha-us once lay a wooden coffin containin,-;- a dead kin- but time has destroNul
the coffui and destro\ed the last vestige of human remains.
I wonder not that this mountain of limestone and red granite has been the fascinati. n
of scholars, of scientists, of intelli.i^ent Christians in all a.^es. Sir John Ilerschei. il).
astronomer, sai.l
he thought it Ikk!
astronomical m^.j.
niticance. TIu
wise men who ar-
comjianied X.iji...
Icon's arniv ii;;,,
I\Liy])t went int..
profound studv . f
the ]nramid. la
iSf)^^ I'rof<.-s>(,r
Smyth and ii;s
wite livid in tin-
em]it>- tondis m ar
b\- the ])\ranii.i
that they mio lit lie
as continiiouslv a-,
possible clo.-i.' to
the ])yr;uii;d,
which they w,'-
i n\'est i <>a i i n •,• .
The pyraiii: .,
built more lli ia
four thous.ia.l
years a.no, beni,ir a complete o;eometrical fi-tire, wise men have concluded it ina-i
have been divinely constructed. Man came throuoli diousands of vears to fine arcla-
tecture, to nni.sic, to paintin.q-, but this was perfect at the world's start, and (iod nn>t
have directed it. All astronomers and jreonietricians and scientists say that it \ -
scientifically and mathematically constructed before science and mathematics were b. ■ :.
From the inscriptions on the pyramid, from its proportions, from the points of the o ■;-
pass reco<,nn'zed in its structure, from tlie direction in which its tunnels run, from ' x
relative position of the blocks that compose it, scientists. Christians and infidels 1: . e
demonstrated that tlie bein,<r who planned this pyramid nuist have known tl
sphericity, and that its motion was rotalor\-, and li
I'lonaiN's I'li.i.AK, Ai.i;x.\Na)uiA.
lie wii
low many miles it was in diameter
;irciimfereiice, and how many tons the world wei-^hs, and knew at what
point in
and another roii;;i
I" rooms yt-t mi', \-
as inacccssihi^ ,
iuL;-, if you wur
tluvf tVet i-lr\. ,
iands down uiii'i'
in after the pv ; ..
"ed. l'rol)cd)l\- ;:;
nie lias ilestnA- ,;
?n tlie fascinatii ;:
m Ilersciiel. {'.:■
istrononier, sas'
le thon.i^lit il h.iii
istrononiical ^i,j.
lificance. 'l'!n
vise nien wlm ai -
'i)ni])anie(l Xa]i,,.
eon's army ii;i,,
v,i;\'])t went iiiti,
)rofonn(l >tnil\ i>!
lie ])yrainid. la
S65 I'rofes.s, r
imytli and li;s
i'ife HvkI in 1::.
mpty tombs m ,iv
•y tlie pwaaii.i
hat tliey mi^ht !.t
s conlinuoiis'iv j-,
()ssil)Ie close 111
lie pyramid!,
■Inch the\- u\'v
iivesti s;a t i n - .
Mie pyraniii;,
nilt more lli.in
jur thousand
eluded it niiM
rs to fine an-hi-
, and (lod nni^t
ay that it \\;is
iatics were hi'iii.
iiits of the rniii-
s rnn, from the
id infidels li,i\e
)wn the wi'vi'i's
in diameter aid
at point in "iie
■^0)
324
THE KARTH GIRDLED.
licaveiis certain stars would appear at certain periods of time. Not in the four tlionsanil
years since tlie i)ntlin,ir up of tiiat pyramid has a sinf,de fact in astronomy or mathenialir-
been found to contradict the wisdom of that strnctnre. Vet they had not at tlie a<,^e wlien
the pyramid was started an astronomer or an arcliitect or a mathematician worth mentinn-
in,i!^. Who then ])ianned tile pyramid? Who superintended its erection? Who from ii
first foundation stone to its capstcMie erected everything? It mnst have been (iod. Isai;iii
was n<,dit when he said : " A pillar shall be at the border of the land of Ej^ypt and it shall
be for a si<,Mi and a witness." The jiyramid isC.od's first Bible. Hundreds, if not thonsaniK,
of years, before the first line of the Book of Genesis was written, the lesson of the pyramid
was written.
Well, of what is this Cyclopean masonry a sUyn and a witness ? Anions' other thinj.'^,
of the prolon<jatio.i of human work compared with the brevity of human life. In all the
four thousand years this pyramid has lost only ei<,ditecn feet in width, one side of its .square
at the ba.se chantjed only from seven hundred and sixty-four feet to seven hundred and fortv-
six feet, and the most of that eighteen feet taken off by architects to fmnish stone for build-
iuir in the city of Cairo. The
men who constructed the
pyramid worked at it onh a
few years and then put down
the trowel and the comjiass
and the square, and loweml
the derrick which had lifted
the ponderous wei<;hts ; hut
forty centuries has their w^ irk
stood, and it will be good fur
forty centuries more. .Ml
Egypt has been .shaken hv
terrible earthquakes and
cities have been prostrated
or swallowed, but that p\ ra-
mid has defied all volcanic
paroxy.sms. It has looked
upon .some of the greatest battles ever fought since the world .stood. Where are the nun
who constructed it? Their bodies gone to dust and even the dust .scattered. Even the
sarcophagus in which the king's munnny may have slept is emptv.
So men die but their work lives on. We are all building pyramids, not to last funr
thousand years, but forty thou.sand, forty million, forty trillion, forty quadrillion, forty (itiiu-
tillion. For a while we wield tlie trowel, or pound with the hammer, or measure with tlic
yardstick, or write with the pen, or experiment with the scieiHific battery, or plan with the
brain, and for a while the foot walks and the eye .sees, and the ear hears and the ton-ne
speaks. All the good words or bad words we speak are spread out into one laver for a \)\rd-
mid. .\11 the kind deeds or malevolent deeds we do are spread out into another laver. All
the Christian or unchristian example we .set is spread out in another layer. All the iiinii ct
influences of our lives are spread out in another layer. Then the time soon comes wlu;: we
put down the implement of toil and jiass away, but the pyramid stands. The tweii; eth
contin\ will not rock it down, nor the thirtieth century nor the one hundredth ceiitnrv.
The earthquake that rocks this world to pieces will not stop our influence for good oi ' vil,
CAKAVAN To JIllCCA.
Tin- WORLD AS SI-;i-X TO-DAY,
he four tlioiisaiiil
ly or inathuiiialii -
t at tliL' a,u;e wIrh
11 worth iiiciuidi;-
I ? Who from it
leen (iod. Isaiaii
^ijypt and it sliall
if not thousaiiil--,
n of tlie pyraiiiii]
iOiij^f other tliiiii's,
1 life. In all t'lu
side of its squaiv
undred and fort\-
h stone for huild-
Mty of Cairo. Tlif
constructed lliu
orked at it oiiK a
nd then put dnwn
and the coni])ass
iiare, and lowmd
: which had lilud
ous weijrhts ; hut
ries has their W' Ilk
it will be o;oo(l fur
iries more. All
been shaken bv
earthquakes and
been prostrated
sd, but that p\ la-
sfied all volcanic
It has looked
liere are the imn
tered. Even tlie
not to last futir
illion, forty (|uin-
measurc with the
or plan with tlie
i and the tcm-iie
layer for a p\ ra-
other layer. All
All the iii'iii -ot
1 comes wdu;: we
The twentieth
ndredth ceiit;irv.
for <;ood or e\il.
You modestly say, " That is ti
<,M.i.,'antic .t;enuises, Milloniaii, or Tall
ue in ro.i^ard to tl
le
;ieat workers for
d
eyrandiaii, but not of
nie,
for 1
IT e-vil, and of
!\r ami work
tu \ ^ f? "■'"''"'"■ '^''' ^''^'^^ ^^•''" ''"''^ ^'- I'™'1^ -ere common
.ok lien. .Nut one 01 them couhl lift oiu- of th.o.e o,,at stone. It took a dozen of tl „
tu hft one stone, and od.ers just wielded a trowel, cbekiu.- it on the hard ed..e or snioot li
te mortar between tlie kn.rs. (.,e liun.lred thonsan.l men toile.l on tho^s ^H d "'
.OS Cheops did no build the pyramid. Some master mason in the world's Iwili-ht d 1 ot
b.uid the pyramid. 0„. hundred thousand iiie-n built it, and perhaps fn,ni fust ' to 1 .o
"^^^^^^^^^^^^^
iicss risinsr ever since the time ^•■. W»
when Xoah <,rot drunk on wine, ''"'^ *"
although there was at his time
such a superabundance of water.
All tlie>aloonists of the a<,^es add-
iii.H their la\ers of ale casks and
wine pitchers and rum ju.^s until
the pyramid overshadows the
Cireat Sahara Desert of desolated
homes, ar.d broken hearts and
destroyed eternities. And as the
pyramid still rises, la\ers of
human sktdls piled on to]) of
lituuan .skulls and other moun-
tains of liuinan bones to whiten
the peaks reachinti^ unto the
heavens, hundreds of thousands
of people are building that pvra-
iiiid. So with the i)yramid of
ri.s^rl-.teousness. Multitudes of
hands are toiling on the steeps,
hands infantile, hands octo<-e-
narian, masculine hands, female
hands, strong hands, weak hands.
Some clanging a trowel, some
pulling a rope, some nuasuring
the sides. Layers of psalm books
on top of layers of sermon.s. Layers of prayers on top of havers of holv sacrifice. \ud
ni"dred.s of thousands coming down to sleep their last sleep, but other hundreds of
tli"usands going up to take their places, and the pyramids will cutinue to rise until the
"nllenmal mornmg gilds the completed work, and the toilers on these heights shall take
on their ajjrons and throw down their trowels, crxing, " It is finished "
Vour business and mine is not to build a pvraumi, but to be one of the hundreds of
thousands who .shall rhig a trowel, or pull a rope, or turn the crank of a derrick, or crv
vo heave ! while lilting another block to its elevation. Thougl, it l,e scemin-lv a small
work and a brief work, it is a work that shall last forever. In the last dav nunv a man
ami woman whose work has never been recogni/.ed <,n earth will come to a'special honor
DR. TALMACl; ON Till-; SIMMIT OI'
TIIIC f,Ui:.\T I'NKAMII).
326
THE KARTII GIRDLED.
Inj'c that all the thousands who have hecu toilin, o„ the pvran.id of n,.hteo„s„ess will
at ast he rec,.,n,.ed and rewanled-the .uother who hvou,d,t Ikt chiLhr,, to C : st
Sal,hath teacher who hn>u,du her elass to the knowledge of the truth, the u„p t ml
'uan who saved a .so„l. Then the trowel will he „,ore honored tha,> the sex ' '
.^M-eat battle was t(on,>,. on the soldiers were ordered to the front and a sick man Lnned on'-'
o an and.nlancc. ,n which he was bein^ carried to the hospital. The snr "eo, S ]
I.c sold,e, answered, ''Doctor, I an, o„i„o to the front; I wonl.l rather die <.n the fal,'
than d,e ,n an an.bulanee." Thank (iod, if we cannot do nu.ch we can do a little
i"i<,rlite()usncss will
rcii to Christ, \.hv
tlu' iinpixteiicliiiM
If sc(.'])trc. A^ ,,
man jumped oir
irKfou asked liim
Host readv to di(
' die on the i'^],'.
o a little.
St way of kei'i-
r pyiainids sii.i
ic l)y wliich \\t
lister Al)])e\ <■
lit it is nucM-
Id l)c told i:; i
ii]> the teiiii ■
II lie was (K;i .
Ixise, and I" ■ ■
r foot had Ix ::
THK WORLD AS SKKX TC)-DAV.
found in the sarcopiK-iKUs beneath the inrauii.l, it w..uld have exeite.
327
le worthiest iiieii and women have not had ah., ve tlu
UR' ci|
111 a stone hi- eiiou-h to tell tluir name.
CAKic vi:niiors at eAiNd, i.r.vpT.
"\'.t scoundrellv Cheops, hut onlv a shin. 1,. witl, ., 1 1 •, • '■"■"'• -M'.^ '•""1(1
;;.™v«.n.. s,„,.,,,;u.n,..,..J;-^:;;;^:J:;;>:™
\\'
llle
tl
lere sceiii> tc
tllMi.
ol one's "-reat "raiulH
iH- no jiractical iisf f,,,- post-niorti-in
eiiiidren, \et ik
one wants to he for^ott
-•oiisidiration lati^r than the
en a> soon as tlieohsefin
lines
338
THE ICARTH (URDLED.
arc (ncT.
Th
inraniid, wliicli Isaiali saws is a si'ni
lul
r
wiliRss, clenioiistratcs that
Ufitlicr liiiKstDiiL' nor ad j^ranitc arc coiiipetLiil to kLtp one alTict:^.. lately n.iiicinl)ere
iK'itlicr can hron/c ; ncitlicr can Parian niarl)lc ; ncitlKr can .\l)cv(kcn nr
But there is sonictliin-^ ont of which to liuiid an cvcrhistinL' ni
one rreshl\ renienil)ere(
til
mite do the wm i
iiiiinieiit and that will l<ei
our thousand \ears ; vea, i<jr ever and ever.
It ih
les not stand
\er\
inarl)]e \ards. It is not to lie purchased at inourninn stores. Vet it is to 1)e round in e
nei.nhliorliood, ])leiity of it, inc\liaustil)Ic quantities of it. It is tlic <,^reatest stulT in ti
universe to l)iiild iiionunients ont of. I refer to tiic memories of those to whom we can (h
kindness, the memories of tlio.sc wliose stru!4f,'les wc may alleviate, the
memories o
f tl
wliose souls wc may save. .\11 around Cairo and Memphis there arc the remains of ])\ ran
that have t^ouc down under the wearin.<,raway of time, and the Orcat Pvramid, of which I-"
lo^e
li.ls
Isaiah
le
speaks, will \aiiisli if tl
world lasts Ion;,' enou.nh ; and
if the world does not last,
then with the earth's dissolu-
tion the pyramid will also dis-
solve. I5ut the memor
those with whom wc
les nl
assi I
ciatc are indestructible. The\
will he more vivid the oilier
.^ide of the <;rave than this
side. It is possible for me to
do \ou a <.;ood and for \(i!i
to do me a <,'ood that will hi-
vivid in memory as main
years after the world is bunieil
lip as all tlie sands of the sea-
shore, and all the leaves of tlie
forest, and all the j^rass blades
of the field, and all the stavs
of heaven added together, an 1
that a^^j^^regate multiplied 1)\
all the fitrures that all tlie
bookkeepers of all time ever
wrote. That desire to be re-
membered after we are ^one is a divinely implanted desire and not to be crushed out, bu:.
I implore you, seek something better than the immortalization of rock, or bronze, nr
book. Put yourself into the eternity of those whom you help for both worlds, tl.is
and the next. Comfort a hundred souls and there will be through all the cvcles of eterniu
at least a hundred .souls that will be your monuments. A prominent member of iiiv
church was brought toCnxl by some one .saying to her at the church door at the do c
of service, " Come again ! " Will it be possible for that one so invited to forget the iuvitev ,'
A minister passing along the .street every day looked up and smiled to a baby in the win-
dow. The father and mother wondered who it was that thus plea.santly greeted their clii;;.
Thev found out that he was a ]iastor of a church. They said, " We must go and hear hiin
preach." They went and heard him and both were converted to (lod. Will there be ai;v
power in fifty million years to era.sc from the souls of those parents the inemorx wf
i)i:ni)i;rai[.
THK WORLD AS SI-HX T()-I).\V.
L-iiioiistratcs tliat
ly n.iiR'iiil)Lri.(l ;
liti' (li) the work.
(1 that will kviji
loL'S not stand ii:
c fiiiuul in i.\ci\
itcst stulT in till
.■lioni wc can dn a
•niorics ut" tlm^i.'
lins of i)\vanii(l>
, of wiiicii Isaiah
\anish if iIk-
W'^ cnou.^li ; and
docs not last,
; earth's dissoln-
uid will also dis-
he nienioiics of
vhoni we ass( i-
^trnctible. Tht\
vivid the ollar
;rave than this
)ssible for nic to
od and for yon
)od that will I)l-
niory as many
■world is hnrncd
■iands of the sca-
the leaves of ihc
the j,n-ass blades
nd all the stais
ed tojjether, an)
e multiplied l)\
es that all the
)f all time ever
desire to be le-
riished out, bu;,
or bronze, > <y
th worlds, tl;is
cles of eterniiN
member of mv
or at the clo-e
Ejet the invitt : ?
aby in tlie w;::-
?ted their clii! '.
o and hear him
tl there be aii\'
the meuiorv oi
329
that man who b\' Ins friend!
liness bronchi iIr.,,, i,,c„h1? Maitlu w Cianswiek, an evan-a-
hst. said that he had the names of two hnn<lrcd souls saved thr.,u-h his sin^in- the In nm
••Arise, my soul, arise!" Will anv of those two hundred souls in all' eteinitv loP^.i
Matthew Cranswick ? Will anv of the four hundred and seventv-niue women and ehildun
imprisoned at Lnckiiow, India, waiting for mass.acre bv the Seposs, for-ct Ilaveloek ind
Outran, and Sir Davi.l I'.eani, who broke in and elTcclcd their rescue? To some of von who
h.ive loved and served the I.ord, luavcn will 1... a -icat picture -allcrv of re m em b, ■,11 ice
Hosts ot the j,Worihed will never foruet v„„. Ah, that is a wav of buil.lin- niominients that
will iicA-er feel the touch of decav. I .lo not ask y..u to suppress this natural desire- of bein-
remembered after yon are -,mc-, but I .miIv want von to put voiir nieinorials int
that will never weaken nor fade. Dnriu
o a suajjc
the course of in\ ininistr> I lia\e been intimatelv
'ri:Mi'i,i:s of i.icxor from tiii; mi.h.
associated m thnstian ^vork with hundreds of oood men and women. Mv memorv is hun<r
with their portraits more accurate and vivid than anvthino- tliat Remlmandt ever put on
canvas :-Pather Grice, DeWitt C. Moore, Father X'oorhee.s, K. P. Hopkins William
Stephens, John Van Rensselaer, Gaslierie DeWitt, Dr. Ward, and hundreds if others all^.f
iK-m ,,.oiie out of tins life, but I hold the memorv of them and shall hold them forever
Lev cannot escape from me. I shall remember them just as thev looked on earth, and I
Oh, uhat stuff the memory is for iik nent buildino !
Ah in Eo-ypt that beautiful ...cnioon, exhausua in body, mind, and soul, we
"minted to return to Cairo, we to.k our last look of the Pvramid at (;izeh. And ^•ou k.u.w
there IS something in the air toward evcnino- that seems productive of .solemn and tender
330
THK KARTII (IIRDLHD.
emotion, ami tli.it >;nat pMaiiiid siiiiud to ]k- Iiiiiiiaiiizfd, and with lips of stone it sefund
to speak and cr> out : " liiar nii', man, mortal and
itninort.
M
Ciod. Ik' dcsinned nic. Isaiah said I slioidd 1
y voice is tlic voice of
K- a sij;n and a witness. I saw M
he was a lad. I witnessed the lon^^ i)rocession of the Israelites as ihev started
Red Sea and I'liaraoh's host in pnrsiiil of them. Tl
OSes when
to cross the
le lalcons a
lid th
le eagles of niaii\' cen-
turies have brushed in> brow. I stood here when Cleopatra's barye landed with her sorceries,
aiul Hvpatia for her virtues was slain in NomUr streets. .Alexander the Creat, Se.sostri>
and I'toleiny admired my pro]iortioiis. Merodolns and I'liny .sounded my praise. ' I am old.
I am verv old. For thousands of years 1 have watched tiie comiiij; and f^oiiij.^ of venera-
tions. They tarry only a little while, but they make everla.stiii<; impression. I l)eaiM)ii iii\
side the mark of the trowel and chisel of those who more than four thousand years ay;,
expired. IJeware wliat you d»., oh, man ! for what xou do will last lono after \ du arc dead '
If >()U would be affectionately remembered after xou are Rone, trust not to any eartlilv com-
memoration. I h ve not one word to say about any astronomer who studied the heavens
from my hei-hts, or any kiiij^ who was .se]nilchrcd in my bosom. I am slowlv passiun
away. I am a dyiu- pyramid. I shall yet lie down in the dust of the plain, and the .saiui>
of the desert shall cover me, or when the earth j^ocs I shall -o. Hut \ on are immortal.
The feet with which you climbed my .sides to-day will turn to dust, but vou have a soul
that will outlast me and all my brotherhood of pyramids. Live for eternity ! I.i\e for
God! With the shadows of the eveniii.tr now falliuj,^ from my side, I pronounce upon yon
a benediction. Take it with you across the Arediterraneau.' Take it with vou across'tlu
Atlantic. (Jod only is <;Teat ! Let all the earth keej) silence before Him. Amen." And
then the lips of jrrauite hushed, and the .threat oiaut of masonry wrapped him.self ajjain in
the silence of a<,res, and as I rode away in the gatherin;.,' twilij.;ht, mv thouj,dits ran with the
poet's :
"Wondrous IC^ypt ! I,.in(l of iiiicifiit iioiiip ;uiil priile,
Wlnrc Ht'.iulv w.ilks l)y lionrv Kiiiii's sidf,
Wlirri- i)li-nty rcii^nis ami sliU tlii.' seasons smile,
Anil rolls— rich ^'I't of Cod — cxhaustless Nik-."
CIIAI'TI'.R XX.WT.
THE ARTERY OF EGYPT.
HA 1 l„.s ,s th. nvn- X,!.. A I.n.w,,. or ydlnw, or silver cord o„ which are
u . more, jewels ... Unillin, .nterest than o„ any river that was ever twiM^
u the snnshuu.. It r-ppk. thron.h the hook of D.ekiel. an.l Hashes i„ ,1,.
hooks ol Denteronon.yand Isaiah ami Zeehariah and Xahnni. and on its h.nks
st...d the nn«ht,est o, n.anv a«es. It was the crystal era.lle of Moses, iu h ^
larv, l,e reln,ee carried the iniant Jesns. To nn<! the birthplace of t s "e w Uu:
l=.--Mnation and deteat of expeditions withont nnnd.er. >:ot n.anv vearsa- I' v- , I T
onr ,.at A.nerican traveler, wrote : " Since Cohnnhns Hrst h..kc i .^sin:^ . i ' ,;e
-vtl. has .nt one en.otu.n of trhnnph left for her bestowal, and tha she re^uv "f"^^
;;npossihiiitv. Th „,.,., ,.. .,, ,,-, :.,r^.^t t.;; ;:;s;!:,i:':.:;;:l;: :;
s anees. stoppe,! all the expe.litions for a^a.. An intelli^^ent native said to Sir S in HW
< .ne np he n,a( schen.e of the Xile sonrce. How wo,dd it he possihl. for a hd v , o'
a..ddehcateoendnre what would kill the strongest n.an ? (;iv it np " „ L rl
wen o„„„n Speke,and(;rant,and llaker ionnd the two lakes wlidl are ^^t ,f
what was called the White Xile, and baptized these two lakes with the n e of V ^ ,
".1 Albert. The^e two lakes, filled by .reat rainHdls and bv accnnu.lat u.ws iVo^
u- V drv a f ;'l ''''>"""^^''^^'-^ -"- ^vhat is called the lUne Xile, which, thonol, dr^ or
>Ka,K dr> lulf tic year, nnder tremendous rains about the middle of June rises to or.,
n.nentutn, and tins Hluc Xile dashes with sudden influx into the Wh t Xi vl ich i
. >s,c,nence, nses th.rty feet, and their con.bined waters inundate E.^vpt with a is,,
vlnch drops on all the fields and ^aniens as it is conducted bv ditches nVue i
Uie uu Xile, and the <>:reatcst bless,u,o;bv its healthful and abundant flow. Thcfan^iue
" Jnseph s tune ca.nc from the lack of sufilcient inuu.lation fron, the Xile. Xot cuo S, Xil s
n i 'the , "'"; '""'T r:' '''''''' ^'" ^li-i-ippi shotdd be taken fron, Xorth
, T ''^^""^I'l>^'-"-^ calamity! Still, there are other rivers that could fertilize
:;::n::^b!^::.::rr '::::- -^^-} - -'^"-v^^ nbboned,is,iorin:^";::
nessed
'w all the prosperities of realms in
acreaL"-
■e semi-infinite. What hapjiens to the Xilt
133'
3.?»
'nui i-AkTH (;ii<i)i,i;i).
1kiI'I>01> ... hv^lA. '['hv NlI.MlUttI w... tn 111. vm SllOMi^tivi. .,> wr \v,|lt 1||. Mll.l (Ii.Wtl h-
(laiiipst.mti -Ui/- i;<.l sau llir pillar iiiaikid \\ , '» iiii'lus, ii.HinjLr j„>i I„,\v lii-li nr low an
thr \\atiis,,r tlu > Wlim tluXiU. iMiMiiH, i.-m criir> cvin "iiinmin- mil tlin.ii-l, n,,
city aiiiK.iiiuiii- Ii,,\viiiaii> kiltlu' livcilias lisiii— uii kitjirum hit. tu.utv iViLtwiulv.
lour lilt ; aii.l uluii tlu vi,o|,i lujoht ..f water i. ivaclud \\w nati> -.f tlu- caiiaiN aiv llui:'^
<»laii aii.l till' li.iiiid .111(1 n in^liin- iHiUMliftimi js i.n.iK.iiiirol mi all tlu' laud.
.V^ \u- Mart wluiv Ilk' Nik' ciiiptifs iiim [\k- .MiditrriMiuMii Si,i uv Ik1i,,].1 a wnii.lnfii;
fiillilliiKiit nf pi-,,plRTv. Tlu- Xik- ill vir\ aiiriiiit tiiiics used t- haw seven iimutlis. .\^
tlic,L^ri';it ri\irapi)i(,aflKd the sia it (.■iilcn<l tlii-ca at sevi u diririvnl pl.iu-. Isaiah ].n,plu-
sud, "TIk' I.muI >I,all ultuiy dolmy tlu- l.,ii-ur nf the J-.^vpiiau Si'a and shall >inite it ii;
llu' siwi. stivaiiiv" The lad i> lluv aic .ill drMrnvid hut twn, an<l Ik'r.d..liis said thiv
two iviiiaiiuu- aiv artilicial. Tp the Xilc uv shall -.. ; part nf the wav l.v Ivnvptiau rail
train and tluu 1)\
l)i)at, and \vi' shall
uuderstaiid win
the Itihlej^ivessiu'h
liroiiiiueuee to llii-
river, which is the
lar<;est river of all
tlie cartii with oiie
exception. Dm Ke-
forc we hoard tin
train we luust take
a look at Alexan-
dria. Itwasfoiin(K(l
by Ak'xander the
Great and was ouee
tlic New York, tin
Paris, tlie kondmi
of tlic world Teiii-
'e'--, palnces, tbiiii-
taiu.- irarden-
I'l'lnici and eHln-
re.scent with all .ir-
Ede.iic -randeiir and sweetness. Apollos, the eloquent, whom in New Testamem't tiincs sou'u
people trad to ina<: a rival to Paul, lived here. Here Mark, the author of the .second hook m
the New I estam.;ii,. :;>;red under Xero's aiKithema. From here the ship sailed that left Pml
and the crew strn-rli . • - , e l)r";;kers of Melita. Pompev's Pillar is here, about one huudnd
feet hi-h, us base s,nre., .le-' l.y so much fdth and .squalor I was olad to escape into an ,r
that was breathabh '! ' s t.>wer was hr ■ :t in honor of Diocletian for sparin- the rebel li,r.
citixeiis. Alter liav.:.<; dec! ued that he w<mld make the blo.d run to his horse's knees lii>
hor>e lallm- with him into the blood and his knees bein- reddened, the tvrant took it l-r
kn-anted that was a si-ii he .shoul.l stop tlie massacre, and hence this commemorative pill.r
to his mercy. Tins is the city to which Omar came after bnildiu- fourteen liuiidn '
mosques, and de.Mrovin,<,r four thou>and
A .SIIAIKIUI- I-OR KAISINC, \VATl;R I K(IM Till-: NII.l.; 1-()K IKKII.A
THIN.
vet ridiuo in on
temples and thirty-five thousand villages and castl
I came, with a sack of corn, a .sack of t"i.<;s and a wooden plate, all that 1:
i|) :iii(l flown it-
lii^^Ii iir low ait
■nil tliiitii^^li tin
it\ i\\[, t\\iiil\.
iMiials air tlui;'^
1.
lid a woiiiliil'ii!
11 iiiiiiiUi>. .\~
Naiali |)i()|ilii.
liall Miiiti' it ii;
Inlus said tllisi.
V Ivi^\iitiaii rail
1 and tlun 1)\
, and \vi' shall
Ir IS land win
l'.dili'<,'i\-cssiicli
iiimiu'c to till-
r, which is tin-
I'st river of all
earth witli oiU'
'ption. I'.iit Ik-
wc hoard tin
1 WL- iiiiist taki
')k at .\k-\aii-
It wasfoiuiiK'l
Alfxaiidfr tlir
it and was oiicc
Xcw York, Ihr
■^, the London
le world. Tiin-
palnces, Ibim-
i.^, ,:.rarde li-
ved and cHlo-
■nt with all ar-
ectnral and
cut times soiiu
■second book oi'
d that left Tan;
lit one luuidii'l
ajie into an a::
the rebel lio-; ■
se's knees, h:-
ant took it t. :
norative pill a'
rteen linndn-
es and eastl< .
ite, all that i .
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THK KARTII (HRDLKI).
li;i(I ktpl Inr IiiniNrlf; and tlif ditt to wliicli lit- liad
l)iiad and wat
i.r.
W
IS tlu'iv fviT ill an\- uIIkt
iiiiitLil liiiiiscir for most of tlic t
line wa-.
so WL'inl, so m'lK-IOUS, so CllR
was tlif "ivatcsl fciiial
man a commiiii^liiio of idciiuni
so mi.ijlitx-, so Nwak,
s so straiu
Rli
;iou.-
<-■ Itctnrcr tlic world ever
ere ()l)iio\i(ins, and S(j tlie\- dr
anatieal
In tl
aw— Hy])atia. lint the 1
:ed her thron.nh thi' streets and
lis cit\
essoiis of virtii
la s K tan-Iit w., .,,...,,„,, ,,,„, ^.^ ^ley cira-oed ner mron-li tlu' streets and sera|)ed lu ■
lieM Ironi lier hoiie.s with sharp oyster sliells and then hnrned the fraoiiK,,ts „f tlie mass-,
cred hu.ly. And liere dwelt Cleo])atra, prononneed to he the I.eantv .',f all tinK—alth<,n..V
11 lier pictures are eorrcct I have seen a thonsaiul women in Ameriea more attraetive— in,i
she was as had as she was said to 1,. han.lsome. (Jneeii, conqneiess, an<l spoke seven
la.ii^naoes, althoii.^di it wonkl have heeii better for the world if she had not been able tu
si)eak any. Julms Ciusar conquered the world, vet she coiupiered Julius C;esar
IJiit, Alexandria, fasciuatin- for this or that thin-, accordiu- to the taste of the visitor
was to me the most entertaiuino; because it lia.l Ijcen the site of the ,<,n-eatest librar>- that
the world ever saw, eoii-
sideriutr the fact that the
art of printin.<; had \u>[
been invented. Seven
hundred thousand \(,1-
umes and all the work
of a slow pen. Hut down
it all went under the
torch of besie<;ers. liuilt
a<>;ain and destro\c<l
a^ain. Built a.<;ain, but
the Arabs came alonu
for its filial demolition,
and the four tlionsain!
baths of the city wun
heated with those \di-
uines, the fuel lastintj six
months, and were evn
fires kindled at such fir
ful cost? What hnl,-
,.. . , „„ , causts of the wiirlii -
literature . \\ hat martyrdom of books ! How many of them have s,-one down under tiv
ra-e ot nations. Only one book has been able to withstand the bombardment and tli :
has u,,iu' throu-h without smell of fire on its lids. Xo sword or spear or musket for i'^
deleiice. An unarmed New Testament. An unarmed Old Testament. Vet invulneralA
aiKl triumphant. There must be something supernatural about it. Conqueror of bo(,k^ '
Monarch ol books! All the books of all the a-es in all the libraries outshone bv this ,„■.
bo<.k which you and I can carry to church in a ].ocket. So niethouoht amid the allies .
Alexandrian libraries.
lint all aboard the Kiryptian rail train y-oin.o; up the banks of the Nile ! Look out ■ "
the window and see those camels kneelinjr for the imposition of their load. And I think ■-. •
miKht take trom them a lesson, and instead of tryin- to stand upri-ht in our own stren-;
become conseu.us of our weakness and need of divine help before we take upon usf.'
heavy duties ,.l the year or the week or the day, and so kneel for the burden. We m. t
A l)\ll.\lli:.\II, OR NII.IC HOAT.
;t of tlic time \v;i
iiu-iits so straiii^i
■al ? In this fit-.
k-ssons of \-irtii.
.sand sera
l)c<i 1
K :
nts of tlic
niass;i.
tnnt
altli
(HI'
L' attract! vf-
:\i\<
UKl
■;iK)k
e sew- 11
not been able {<
:csar.
itc of the visitm,
atest Iil)rary tliat
1(1 ever saw, cctii-
:tlie fact that the
had
vS
nut
e\eii
)rnitui<^
ivented.
I thousand vol-
ul all the work
V pen. But down
.vent under tin-
l)esieo;ers. Ihiilt
and destrovtd
Built
aiiain, hut
)s came almi.
m
al d
emolitioii,
four thousand
tlie citv weiT
wi
th tl
lose \(ij
.> fuel lastin,^' six
and were evir
lied at such fea;-
? What liol,,-
tlu
worlil
down under tl
luieut, and th,
uuisket for i
et invnlnerali
iieror of book-
aue bv th
id th'
IS one
e asUes m
! Look out
\ud I think
wo
r own .stren^t'i,
ce u])on us i ■
[Icn. We nn I
336
THE EARTH GH^DLED.
processions of n,cn and I^oasts on the way fn.n. their day's work, but alas for the homes to
wlncli tlie poor inhabitants arc -oiii- ! For tlie most part liovels of mud Hut there is
soinethino; ni the scene that llionmol.ly enlists ns. Jt is the noveltvof wretchedness and ',
scene of pictnres.ine ra-s. I'or tlionsands of years tliis land lias been under a verv damn i
tioii of taxes. Xotliin- but Cliristian civilization will roll back the influences which ne
' spoihn- the Ejj:yptians." There are jrardens and palaces, but thev belon- to the rulers'
_ About here, under the valiant Mura.l P,ey, the Mamelukes, who are the finest horsenun
in a 1 the world, came like a hurricane upon Napoleon's armv, but thev were beaten back
by the I-rench in one of the fiercest battles of all time. Then the Mamelukes turned their
lonses heads the other wav, and in desperation backed them a-ainst the French tr.K.ps
h opmo; the ho rses would kick the life out of the French re^ri,„ents. The Mamelukes fail-
' ~ '"« 'iR-ii'i. plnn,<,^cd into this Nile and were drowned, the Freueh
for days fishincr out the dead bodies of the Mamelukes to oet iIk-
valuables upon their bodies. Xapoleon, at the daring of these
Mamelukes exclaimed, "Could I have united the Mameluke
horse to the French infantry, I should have reckoned nnself
master of the world."
This ride along the Nile is one of the most solemn and ini-
pressive ride s o f all my lifetime, and our emotions deepen
as the curtains of the night fall
upon all surroundings. Hut we
shall not be satisfied until wc
can take a ship and pass right
out upon these wondrous waters
and between the banks crowded
with the story of empires.
According to the lead pencil
mark in my Bible it was
Thanksgiving Day morning, in
the United States, that with my
family and friends we stepped
aboard the steamer on the Nile.
The Mohammedan call to
prayers had been sounded by
., ,, . ^ , r , "^''^ priests of that religion.
the Muez/.ms, from the four Irundred mosques of Cairo, as the cry went out • "(iod is
great. I bear witness that there is no God but God. I bear witness that Mohammed is
the apostle of God. Come to prayers. Come to .salvation. God is great There is i„,
other but God. Pravers are better than sleep." The .sky and citv and palm gnn-es and
river .shipping were bathed in the light. It was not much of a craft that we boarded It
would not be hailed on any of our rivers with any rapture of admiration. It fortunate In
liad but little speed, for twice we ran aground and the sailors jiimpe<l into the water aiul u„
their shoulders pushed her out. lint what yacht of gavest sportsman, what deck of switu-t
ocean queen could give such thrill of raiHure as a sail on the Nile ? The pvramids in
sight, the remains of cities that are now onlv a name, the villages thronged with poptila-
tion both banks crowded with historical deeds of forty or si.xtv centuries. Oh, "what,.
Book the Hible is when read on the Nile !
HAKRAC.IC, OR WINT, DAM, TO I.\CRHA.SK THK DErTII OK THK NH.K.
for the homes to
1(1. P.ut tlierc i.-,
c'tchcdiiL'Ss and a
er a very daiiiua-
leiices wliicli are
', to the rulers.
' finest lior.seineii
»'ere beaten back
ikes turned tjieir
> French troojjs,
Mamelukes fail-
■ned, the French
?hikes to >ret the
• darino; of these
tlie Mameluke
eckoned nnself
THPi WORLD AS SKHX TO-DAY.
As we slowly mo\c np the
3:^
.•)/
wasted and dried up, and thev shall turn 1 ' • 7 " ■-'J'^- '^''''' '''''' '^'^^^
be
all
ke
R.^MESKtM AND TOMH.S OK THK KINT.S, Ttn-Iil'S
the Lord (;od ;-Hehold I am a<r,i„ V,, p .' ^''" ''''' ■ " '^'''"^ '^^^^'
33S
Till-: KARTM GIRDLKD.
vSlidcs arc now taken (iff in revfRaice lu sacn-d jilaccs. Children carried astride tlie motlierV-
shoulder, as in Ha,L;ar"s time. Women with jjrofusion ot" jewelry, as when Rebecca wa-
affianced. Lentils shelled into the pottaj^c, as when l')sau .sold his birthri,>,dit to <>;et such a dish.
The same liabils of salutation as when Jo.se])]] and his brethren fell on each other's ncck>.
Courts of law licld under bij^ trees, as in olden times. People inakino- l)ricks without straw,
coniiX'lled by circumstances to use stubble instead of straw. Flyin<,roveror staudins^ on tin
banks, as
in
Scripti
ure (lavs, ar
e flamin<4()es, ospreys, ea.!^les, pelicans, herons, cuckoos am
bullfinches. On all sides of this river sepulchres. \'illa<;es of sepulchres. Cities of sep-
ulchres. Nations of se]iulclires. And one is tempted to call it an empire of tombs. I nevei
saw such a jilace as ]\t;>])t is for <;raves. And now we understand the complainiujf sarcasm
of the Israelites when lliey were on the wa\- from K,y;ypt to Canaan : " Because there wen-
no .i^raves in K,^npt, lia.st thou taken us away to die in the wilderness ? "' Down the ri\er
bank come the buffiilo and tin-
cattle or kine to drink. And it
was the ancestors of these cattle
that in.spired Pharaoh's dream of
the lean kine and the fat kine.
Here we disembark a little
while for Memphis, off from the
Nile to the right. Memphis
founded by the first king of Egvpt
and for a long while the capital.
A city of marble and gold. Home
of the Pharaohs. City nineteen
miles in circumference. Vast
colonnades through which impos-
ing processions marched. Here
stood the Temple of the Sun,
itself in brilliancy a sun shone on
by another sun. Thebes was in
power over a tliou.sand one hun-
dred years, or nearly ten times as
long as the United States Inne
existed. Here, at Memphis, is a
recumbent statue .seventy-five kt t
long. Bronzed gateways. A necropolis called "the haven of the blest." Here Joseph \va>
prime minister. Here Pharaoh received Jacob. All po.ssible splendors were built np
into this royal city. Hosea, Kzckiel, Jeremiah and Isaiah speak of it as sonietliiiiL,'
wonderful. Never did I visit a city with such exalted anticipations and never did niv
antici])ations drop .so flat. Not a pillar stands. Not a wall is unbroken. Not a fountain
tosses in the sun. P^veu the ruins liavr been ruined, and all that remain are chips. if
marble, small pieces of fractured .sculpture and splintered human bones. Here ami
there a letter of some elaborate inscription, a toe or ear of a statue that once stood in
niche of palace wall. Ivzekiel prophesied its blotting-out, and the prophecy has been Inl-
filled. " Ride on," I said to our party, " and don't wait for me." And as I stood tluie
alone, the city of Meniplns in the glory of past centuries returned. And I heard the rr.^i
of her chariots and the dash of her fountains and the conviviality of her palaces, and saw
oni-:i,iSK, Axn proi'vi.ox oi' thi-: ti':mpi,i; oi' uxor.
THE WORLD AS SKKX TO-DAY
t'le dninkeu nobles roll on the floors of
359
re<,ralities of the place, I saw PI
mosaic, while in startliii- contra>t
herd,
savin<r.
II
)\v old art thou ?
laraoli look up into tl
aiuul
ill ll
le
le lace of
aiiei
1 rustic Jacob, the shej)
But back to the Xile aud
of No. Hundred-yaied 'V
"U aud up till you reach Thebe-
great temples, two of them I
ebes. A cjuadrau.^nlar citv f'
in Scrii)ture called the Cit\
karuac aud Luxor, once
our miles froui liuiitto limit. 1
our
gorireous dreams solidified iu stone. Statue of
mountains of e.\(|uisite sculjjture aud
tons in wei-ht and seventy-five feet hioh, but now f;
Rameses II, ei<dit hundred
ilk
id
aud ei'ditx-seveu
.,,.., 1- , , ,- . now .cwi^u aiiu .-leai.iered. w alls abloom
ew^ ^^whi^hrT^ l'"" •™"''"^ "'"^ '''^'"^ '-"--^ into sepulchL, on
the wall of winch are chiseled in picture aud hieroolypi,ics the confirmation of liible s torv
n regard to the treatment of the Israelites in E.ypt, so that, as explorations .o<.n w tl t e
woik, the walls of these sepulchres be-
come commentaries of the Bible, the
Scriptures orio;iiially written npon parch-
ment, here cut into everlastinjr .stone.
Thebes mighty and dominant five luin-
dred yeans. Then she went down in
fulfillment of Ezekiel's prophecy concern-
ing the City of No, which was another
name for Thebes : " I will execute judg-
ment in No. I will cut ofl" the multitudes
of No." Jeremiah also prophesied, " Thus
saith the Lord, I will punish the multi-
tudes of No." This city of Thebes and
all the other dead cities of Egypt iterate
and reiterate the veracity of the Scrip-
tures, telling the same story which IMoses
and the prophets told. Have you noticed
how God kept back these archaeological
confirmations of the Bible niitil our
time, when the air is full of unbelief
about the truthfulne.ss of the dear old
Book ?
He waited nntil the printing press
had been .set up in its perfected shape,
and the submarine cable was laid, and
the whole wor'd was intelligent enough to
appreciate the testimony, and then he resurrected the dead cities of the earth, and commands
'"l\f'';;'^^' ,,,''"" ■'""' ^""'^^ ^"'^'^^ ''>^ ^"^ ^P^'-^k ! Memphis and Thebes ! Is the Bible
true? I rue .'"respond Memphis aud Thebes. " Babvlon ! Is the Book of Daniel true ' "
_ 1 rue ^^ responds Babylon. " Ruins of Palestine aud S>ria ! Is the New Testament true ^ "
I rue . rcspcmd the nuns all the way from Joppa to the Dead Sea, and from Jerusalem 'to
DamasctLs. \V hat a mercy that this testimony of the dead cities should come at a time
iivinit r H c, '" fP<^'^'''»">V'»--'»il«'- And this work will goon until the veracitv and
inmity of the Scriptures will be ascert.iin to all sensible men and women as that two and
two make four, as that an isosceles triangle is one which has two of its sides equal as that
the diameter of a circle is a line drawn through the centre and terminated bv the
GODDESS OK
AND i,o\vi;r i;gvi'T crowning
I'HAKAOir.
340
thp: earth girdlkd.
ciiciimferenct, as certain as any niatlieniatical demonstration. Never did I feel more encour-
ajijed tlian when after preacliinjj; a sermon on evidenees of the trntli of the Bible drawn from
Oriental lands, a distin<^nislied senator of the United States, known and honored everv-
wliere, bnt ncnv deceased, came np to the platform and said : " I was brou.nht up in tlie
faitii of Cliristianity, bnt I got speculating on all these subjects, and had given np my faith
in the Uible, bnt those facts and arguments arclueological take me back to my old faith in
the I5iblc, which my father and nu)thcr taught me." The tears rolling down his cheeks
evinced the depth of his emotion. Wiicn I read of the senator's death I was comforted to
think that perhaps I may have helped him a little in the struggle of this life, and perhaps
given him an easier pillow on which to die.
Two great nations, Egypt and Greece, dijilomatized and almost came to battle for one
book, a copy of Jischylus. Ptolemy the Egyptian king, discovered that in the great
library at Alexandria there was no
copy of .^ischylus. The Egxp-
tian king sent up to Athens,
Greece, to borrow the book and
make a copy of it. Athens de-
manded a deposit of seventeen
thousand seven hundred dollars as
security. The Egyptian king re-
ceived the book, but refused to
return that which he had borrowed,
and so forfeited the seventeen
thousand seven hundred dollars.
The two nations rose in contention
concerning that one book. Beau-
tiful and mighty book indeed ! Bnt
it is a book of horrors, tliedomiuunt
idea that we are the victims of
hereditary influences from whicii
there is no escape, and that Fate
rules the world ; and although the
author does tell of Prometheus who
was crucified on the rocks for sym-
pathy for mankind, a powerful su;^-
gestion of the sacrifice of Christ in later years, it is a very poor book compared with thai
Book which we hug to our hearts because it contains our only guide in life, our only comfort
in death, and our only hope for a blissful immortality. If two nations could afford t..
struggle for one copy of ^schylus, how much more can all nations afford to struggle for
the possession and triumph of the Holy Scriptures !
But the dead cities strung along the Nile lot only demolish infidelity, but thunder down
the absurdity of the modern doctrine of evolution, which says the world started with nothin„'^
and then rose, and human nature began with nothing bnt evolved into splendid manho. d
and womanhood of itself. Nay ; the sculpture of the world was more wonderful in t! i
days of Memphis and Thebes and Carthage than in the days of Boston an.d New York.
Those blocks of stone, weighing three hundred tons, high np in the wall at Karnac imp'.v
machinery equal to, if not surpassing, the machinery of the nineteenth centurv. How v is
THK COLOSSI, THEBES.
?el more enconr-
ble drawn from
honored cvery-
iU^lit np in llie
.•en up my faitli
my old Aiitli in
lown liis clieeks
■as comforted to
ife, and perhaps
:o battle for one
t in the <;reat
ria there was no
s. The K<^yii-
iip to Athens,
■ the book and
it. Athens de-
of seventeen
ndred dollars as
yptian kintj re-
but refused l>.
e had borrowed,
the seventeen
undred dollars,
se in contention
e book. Beau-
lok indeed ! But
rs, the dominant
the victims of
:es from whicli
and that Kale
lid although the
:^rometheus who
e rocks for syiii-
a powerful su,u-
oared with that
)ur only comfort
could afford tn
to struggle for
t thunder dnwu
id with notliiiiL;
endid manlnHd
.•onderful in the
in.d Xew York,
t Karnac implv
ur\'. How VIS
THE WORLD AS SEEN TO-DAY.
that statue of Rameses, weighing eight hundred and eighty-seven tons, transported from the
<p.arnes two hundred nnles away, and how was it lifted? Tell us, n.odern n.aehiuists
How were those galler.es of rock, .still .standi,.g at Thebe.s, filled with paintings surp- 's ed
by no artrst's pencd of the present day? Tell u.s, artists of the nineteenth eemur ' T
dead at.es of hgypt so far as they have left enough pillars or statues or sepulehre -r
enu>le rums to tell t e story-Munphis, Migdol, Hierapolis, Zoan, Thei>es, ( '^^^
Larthage-all„f then, developing downward instead of upward. Thev have exulute.l froui
n.agmficence mto destruction. The gospel of Jesus Christ is the elevat.r of individual u
•sonal national character. Let all the living cities know that p.nnp an.l opuienc u
temporal prosperity are no secunt>-. Tho.se ancient cities lacke.l not!,ing but good n,o iV
I .ss,pat>on and sni slew them, and unless dissipation and sin are halted, t'.ev . •], son el v
slay our modern cit.es an< leave our palaces of merchandise and our galleries of art and . r
da>. And >f the ct.es go down, the nation will go down. "Oh," xon .sav "that is
nnposs.l^e ; we have stood so long-yea, over a hundred vears as a natioii." Wlv w Int of
that Thebes stood five hundred years; Men.phis stood' a thou.sand vears. God'do ,
torget. One day with the Lord is as a thou.sand years and a thou.sand vears as one c
Rum and debauchery and bad politics are more rapidly workin.. the destruc io^oft ;
Amencan cities than sin of any kind, and all kinds worked for the destruction of the cit e^o
Alriea once so mighty and now .so prostrate. But their gods were idols, and could do nothim.
except for debasement. Our God made the heavens and .sent His Son to redeem the na o C
-vnd our cities will not go down, and our nation will not perish because the gospel is 'oi i :
to ruimph. forward ! all schools and colleges and churches ! Forward ! all ell ni; ton-
and missionary organizations. Forward ! all the influences marshaled to bless the .tld
Let our modern Luropean and American cities listen to the voice of tho.se ancient cit s
resurrected, and by luunmer and chisel and crow-bar compelled to speak
I notice the voice of those ancient cities is hoarse from the exposure of fortv centuries
and they accenttiate slowly with lips that were palsied for ages, but altogether \hctS
along the Nile intone tliese words : " Hear us, for we are ^•e;• ;id, and it is ha id for lo
speak. We were wise long before Athens learned her first lessoi . We sailed J^r lips
wnile yet navigation was unborn. We sinned and we fell. Our learning could lot ave
see those half obliterated hieroglyphics on yonder wall. Our architecture could n'sve
n see the painted columns of PhiL^. Our heroes could not .save us : witness this, Menes
.odonis, Rameses and Ptolemy. Our gods Ammon and Osiris could not save us see
their fa len temples all along the four thou.sand miles of Nile O, ve modern cit es" Z
^nie other god-a God who can help, a God who can pardon, a God who can s"ve SirS
up as we are for a little while to give testimony, again the .sands of the desert will burv s
Ashes to ashes dust to dust !" And as these voices of porphvrv and granite ceased ali th^
arcophagi under the hills responded, " Ashes to a.slies .- " and the capital of a lofty coun^
fell, grinding itself to powder among the rocks, and responding, " Dust to dust • "
CHAI'TKR XXXVII.
BRICK-KILNS OF EGYPT.
;f'
XD
ilATisall this excitement a1)oiit in tlie streets of Cai.o, ICyvpt, this bcantifnl
IIK
)rnin.i,^ in 1SS9? Stand 1)ack ! We liear loud voices and see tiie crowds
ol
peojjle retreatin.t,'^ to the sides of tlie street. The excitement of otliers becomes
our own excitement, l-'ootmeu come in sij^lit. Tliev have a rod in hand and
tasseled caj) on head, and their arms and feet are l)are. Tiieir j^arl) is l)lacls. to the waist,
excejjt as tlireaded witli jj^old, and the rest is wliite. They are clearinj,' tlie wav for an
official dionitary in a chariot or carriajj^e. They are swift and sometimes run thirty or fortv
miles at a stretch in front of an ecjuiinii^e. Make way ! Tlie\- are the fleetest-footed men
on earth, but soon die, for the human frame was not made for such endurance. I asked all
around me who the man in the carriaj^e was, but no one seemed to know. Vet as I fell
back with the rest to the wall, I
said, this is the old custom fotuid
all u]) and down the Uible, footmen
running; before the rulers, denuind-
in.L,'' obeisance, as in (ienesis before
Joseph's chariot the people were
connnanded, " How the knee ; " and
PS I saw the swift feet of the men
followed by the .swift feet of the
horses, liow tliose old words of
Jeremiah rushed throu<i;li my mind :
" If thou hast run with the footmen
and they have wearied thee, how
canst thou contend with horses?"
Two hundred and eij;hty-nine
times does the Bible refer to Ef,^vpt
and the H,i;yptian,s. No wonder,
for Ef^ypt was the mother of na-
tions. E.u^ypt, the mother of
Cireece ; Greece, the mother of
Rome ; Rome, the mother of En<r-
laud ; Enjjjland, the mother of oin
own laiul. Accordin,!^ to that, E,s;ypt is our ,i^reat-<;reat-grandmother. In other chapters I let'i
you stuchinjr what they must have been in their ,^lory : the Hypo.style Hall of Karnak, tlu
architectural uiiracles at Luxor, the Colonnade of Horemheb, the cemeteries of Memphis,
the value of a kingdom in one monument, the Sphinx, which with lips of stone speaks loui'
enough to l)e heard across the centuries; Ileliopolisand Zoan, the conundrum of arclueohi-
gists. Ihit all that extravai;ance of palace and temple and monument was the cause of an
(342)
(•■i;ni;i< Ai, vncw of i.rxoR.
THK WORLD AS SI-HX TO-DAV. ..,3
..ppression hij,h as luavu, and .kc,. as Ik-II. 'Vh. wu,l„ .,f tl,os. l.In.ks ,„■ .u.n- h. .vut
tl.an a.>v nu.U.n .MacljuuTv could lif,, .an,. ,low„ upon th. Ildnvw slaves, and thJir 1,1
nnxed tlu' mortar for thf trowels.
Wc saw a^aiu and a^ain on and alou^ ,1,. Xil. a buss worku.an rou.hlv snnte a snhnr-
.natcwhodul not please huu. It is no rare ..ccurreuce ,0 see ion, ?ine> of nun u , k'-
heax->- burdens passu,, bv tasku.asters at short distances, lashing them as thev u<. bv , .
ISLAND oi- I'lfir.AK ruoM mc.raat.
and another holds up the victin>-s fcet, while the officials beat the l,are hack of the victin,
every stroke, I have no doubt, fetchin- the blood.
Now you see how the Pharaohs could afford to l,uild such costlv works. It cost them
nutlnu,^ for wa^^es, uothino- but the tears and blood of the toilers, and tears and blood are '
o, knov that the bncks were usually u.ade with " crushed .straw," .straw crushed In the
-to the oxen ,n the threshi^^^ and, this cru.shed straw denied to tl,e workmen, thev had
t" pick up here and there a piece of stubble or .leather rushes from the water-side 'This
M'.ry ot the H.ble is confirmed by the fact that nurny of the brick walls of K-vpt have on
.e lower layer brick.s made with straw, but the hi.^dier lavers of brick made out of rou-d,
^^tniw, or rti.shes from the river bank, the truth of the book of Ivxodus thus written in the
TIIIC KARTH GIRDLKD.
l.rirk UMlIs (li-o.vcml l.v Hr. ,nn,ki„ cxploruN. That "..vcninantal ..utn.nv has alwavs
l._fui a chanicluisiic .,f Iv-v plian rulers. Ta.vati..,, i„ ihc^ point ..f starvation was the-
KijyiJtiaii rule in tiic I!ihk' tinus as well as it is
111 our own time. A iiiodfrn traveler j^rivt-
the h^-nres c..iicernin,^rtiK.cnltiNati..n of seventeen acres, tlie value ..f the vield uf the lal.
stated 111 |)iasters (almul ei.i;lu cents):
I'riMlm-c,
1''X1IC11M-,
Cli'.ir in-iiiliKT,
Taxis, . .
SoSii
AiiiMiiiil fli',ii-i(l liv ihr faiiiiir.
493
Or, as niv authority declares, seventx- ].er cent of what the I'-vptian ranner makes is
for taxes to the -(.veniment. Now, that is not so iiuicii taxation as assassinal on.
What
tliink >i)ti of tlr.i'., \ou who
.uroaii under lieav>' tax.'s in
America? I have luard that
in I'lj^ypt tile workin,q; people
haveason.i,'- like this: "They
starve us, they star\e ns,
they beat us, tlic>- beat us,
but there's .some one abo\e,
tl; •!' 's .some one above, who
will j)unisli them well, who
will punish them well." lint
seventy ])er cent of }>;overn-
nieiit tax in K<,r\ pt is a inerc\
as compared to what the
Hebrew slaves suffered there
in Hible times. The\- ,^ot
iu)tliini,r bnt food hardly fit
for a do<,r, and their clothin-^
was of one raj,^, and their roof
I'Koi'vr.oN- oi- THK TKMi'i.H, nKNDKKAH. ''^ iMirniiifr .sky i)y day and
Vn„ ,:n,- "\\'i,,. n .1 ,• -^„ the stars of lieaven bv ni''lu,
\ou sa^ Win did thev stand it?" Becan.se they had to .stand it. Yon .sec alo,-..
hack in he world's twil,,d,t there was a famine in Canaan, and old Jacob and his s „:
came to h,n-pt or l,read. The old man's b,n- Joseph was prime minister, and Jc epl -I
ppose the iather and the brothers called him Joe, for it\loes not niak anv cliff renc
aluus call lumby the .same name that he was called bv when two vcars old-Jo.seph
L...^^pt. the Westchester farms or the Lancaster farms of the ancients. Jacuhv
;: ;;;r^ T •■ r^y^f- ,:'^"' ^ "''''^' "^-^^^ ^-^^ ^ ^"- ^t lamine, and tho.
s eidants of Jacob, the Israelites, eame to a ..eat storehouse which Joseph 1::. ;
.oMded and paid m money for corn. P.ut after a while the nionev <,ave out and tl.
ind tin; t!" H •' '"■ ' ""'''■'"■ "'"'^ ""-^ ^^" ■" ^"^ ""^^'^-•- ^ ^'- ^--
le Hebrews boiiijiit corn fr
0111 the <,mveriiment b\- surrend
imer.t.
erin,s.^ them.selves as si
ue-
inv^L- has alw.ixs
irvatiuii was tin-
ni traveler <,mv(.'s
ield of tlic full!
. . tOo2
49.1
■r luala's is ]iai(l
siiial'i-ii. Wlial
if lliU'., \()U wild
r licavN' la.vjs in
have- !i( aid that
■ Wdrkiiij^- pLoplc
iktlliis: "Thi-y
:lK'y star\c lis,
s, tlicy heat lis,
ioiiie one ah()\e,
one abo\e, who
tlie'il well, who
hem well." lint
cent of {joverii-
C<,n ])t is a niercv
to what the
;s suffered there
lies. They .i^ot
food hardlv fu
1 their clothing
^, and tlieinciof
:y by day aii<l
;aveii hy iiii^ht.
Von see aldi:.^;
) and his sons
and Joseph — I
any difference
■rs and sistei-
■s old — Jose])li,
'idlest part ol
L'lits. Jacob's
ine, and tlio-i
. Joseph l-.a :
out and tin. :
e ,q;overii!iie!:!.
elves as sla\e-.
KING THEERAW'S PRIMA DONNA DANCING GIRL.
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tl
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111
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tl
til
Is
til
so
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no
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ha
ha
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till
till
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adi
l)it
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of
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THIv WOIU.D AS SKi:\ TO-DAV.
3J5
Then bc«ai, >laven i., I.;.y,,t. TIr. noumiiKiU ovvir.,! all tlu IKl.aws. \,„1 ia
n.ou.n, hn,alu>, wl.o n, AnuTica pr.,,... lumdi,,,. ..vct td.,ra,,I, . ,.,„,.a,n.> a.,.i raiin...]
a... UtluT tln„,s to K. nn> l.v tl.c ,..vcrn„u.„t, scv th. f..llv o,' I.ttiu« tl,. .ov.nuMc «
us ha.ul o„ .vcrvtinn,. I wn,„,, rather trust th. ,.„,,]. than a,n ,,ov.,„„;.„t the T iu
hates ever had cr w,ll ha^v. Wo. ^vo,•th the .lav when U.,i.,.Uors an.I cn.nessc.s „
a.mnustnU.ons pt ,...sess,o„ of anvthi,,. n.ore than it is .acessarv ,or thu„ to ha
li.atuouKn,et..e revival HI th,s lam! of Hut ol.l ri^nptian tvram.v lor whieh Co.l Ins
never had anyth.n.r h„t re.l-hot thun.ierl.olts. Hut through s„eh n.nvise pn.eessc. K, ael
was enslaved ,„ Iv,.pt a„.l the lunj, !i„o of agonies heoa„ all up au.l down the Xil.
Heav.eraud sharper lell the lash, hungrier an,l ghastlier .M'eu- th' worku.eu. h.uder a ,1
v"' "ll^dl'^'T)!';^':;!- ''"' ' " ""^ ""'"' "" '" ^■--'^'--' — ryiu,, ■> Va ! Alhlh !
Oh! God!
Where was Iielp to
come froui ? Xot the
throne, I'haraoli sat upon
that. Xot tile army,
riiaraoh's officers eom-
iiianded that. Xot sur-
roniidin^r nations,
riiaraoh's threat made
them all treinhle. Xot
the jjods, Aminoii and
Osiris, or tlie jjoddess
Isis, for Pharaoh built
their temples out of the
fjroans of tliis diabolical
servitude. Hut one liot _^_,,^
day tlie princess Tho- i^^/^^fsPl^
uoris, the dauj^hter of '^*r>u^^,.9^^. ^ .
I'haraoli, while in her
halhing-house on the
l)aiiks of the Xilc, has
word brouf^ht her that
there is a baby afloat on
and Iw-'V T". "f ' ""' "V"^ '"""^- '''' ^"""^ ^''^^^ '^ excitement all up
ad dow. the banks, for an ord.narv baby in an ordinarv cradle attracts suuliu.^
ateution, but an infant :n a cradle of papyrus rocking on the river arouses uot on v
adnnration but cunosity. Who made that boat? Who made it water-ti,d,t with
I'.umen? AM.o launched it? Reckless of the crocodiles whieh lav baskim- them-
selves in the sun, the maidens wade in and snatch up the child, and' first one^ carries
1 ".. and then another carries him, and all the wav up the bank he runs a <,aunt e
o. caresses till riionons rushes out of the bathin,.-house and savs, " lieautif.d fouudli,,..
I wdladop you as my own. You shall yet M'ear the K^nptian crown and sit on tl-J
n?alirh""w-, ''"^n"^''"' He is to be the emancipator of the Hebrews. Tell it
all the brick-kilns. Fell ,t aiuon^ all those who are writhin,^. uuder the lash, tell it
among all the castles of Memphis and Heliopolis and Zoan and Thebes. Before him a sea
I'llAUAOH'S lllj), I'HII.Al
346
THE EARTH GIRDLED.
will part. On a mountain top, alone, this one will receive from tlie Almi<rlity a law that
is to he the f oundation of all j^ood law while the world lasts. Wlien he is dead (iod wiU
come down on Xebo and alone bury him, no man
or woman or anf>;el worthy to attend the obse-
quies. The child <>rows up and goes out and
studies the horrois of Kf^yptian oppression, and
suppresses his indig-nation, for the right time has
not come, although once for a minute he let 11\ ,
and when he saw a taskmaster jnit the whip on
the back of a workman who was doing his best
and heard the poor fellow cry and saw the blood
spurt, Moses doubled up his fist and struck him
on the temple till the cruel villain rolled over
in the .sand exanimate and never swung the lash
again. Served him right !
P»ut, Moses, are you going to undertake the
impossibilities? Von feel that you are going to
free the Hebrews from bondage, but where is
your army ? Where is your navy ? Not a swon!
have you, not a spear, not a chariot, not a horse.
Ah I (iod was on his side and He has an armv of
His own. The snow-storms are on God's side :
witness the snow-banks in which the French
army of invasion were buried on their wav back
from -Moscow. The rain is on His side : witness the eighteenth of Jtnie at Waterloo when
the tempests so .saturated the road that the attack could not be made on Wellington's
forces until ii o'clock and
he was strong enough to
hold out until reinforce-
ments arrived. Had that
battle been opened at 5
o'clock in the morning in-
.stead of at 11 the destinv
of Europe would have been
turned the wrong way. The
heavy rain decided everv-
thing. So also are the
winds and the w\aves on
God's side : witness the
Armada, with one hundred
and fifty ships and twentv-
six hundred and fifty gnus
and eight thousand .sailors
and twenty t h on sand
soldiers, .sent out by Phili])
H of Spain to conquer Kng-
land. What became of men
MiJiMv oi-- itAMi:si;s III., iioi-i,.\K Mu.si-;rM.
THE WORLD AS SHKX TO-DAY
n.ans have „o such IcPve f..r I RI^j?, ;,,,,'•" "'^ "' '"" ""' ^'"' '^"'■^""' ^'■"' ^'-•-
tl>e K<^vptians lK.ve love for thVx r' I r ^^T ''''^' ^'''' ''"'' ^''^^ Vol,.,, as
Moses takes a stick an 1 w"i, he 1 1 r 7 H ■' " " " '''"'"''' "'''''' ^''^^^■" ^"' ''''•' ■■v-
a..d through the sluice fi^ o < ", " "'' T\T ''"' ■^^'"" '' '' ■^l-.^^''ter-housc.
the uudocfor whehns eve -,11, 1 r^i'^T '"""'' ''''"''-^ "^^ '"^" ^'■^' '-"' -''
horrible croak all over eve •?„!'' H ''' ^''"r^r'''' '''''"' """^' •'•^' '"'"■^■^ -i^''
iniVsted with insects thS^dor^to U "fil " ^^'V'"" -"''"'"^^ ^" n.stidio„s,K.ss, w.re
wilh flies, aud theu th ■ '^ ^"^'-' ""' ""'^""J''' ^""' ^'•^' '•"■'■ '^'-^l and 1h,z...1
distemper started cows '
to bellowiuo^ and horses
to nei,liin<r and camels
to groaning, as they
rolled over and expired.
And then boils, one of
which will put a man
in wretchedness, came
in clusters from the top
of the head to the sole
of the foot. And then
tlie clouds dropped hail
and lightning. And
thin locusts came in,
swarms of them, worse
than the gra.sslioppers
ever were in Kansas,
and then darkness
dropped for three daws
;^o that the ])eopie
could not see their hand
TOMIIS Ol- Till-; CAT.Il'HS, CAIRO
Sting
larp
tl
iiian who was cradled in the basket of
le wrongs that lui.ve slni
!g vo!! all
vour live-
is the
ni
ight of your rescue. Thev <rall
papyrus on the \ilc will lead \
Aw
.i\
'J'
he
on.
gather tt)getlier at a signal. A
Tpl Tpl This
e.vanders armies and all
348
THE EARTH GIRDLED.
il
le aniiR's ot
)l(lfll tillK' WCTC ](.■(
torches (in lii,!^li jxiIl'S,
rreat crests of fire ; and tlie
],n\\\ Alniii^litv kindles a torch not lield l)y lininan hands, hnt l)y onniijiotenl hand. Xot
made onl of straw or oil, hnt kindled ont of the alniosiilure, snch a torch as the world
never saw heforc and never will see a.^ain. It reached from the earth nnto the heaven, a
liillar of fire, that ])il!ar ])racticall\- saving, " This wa\ ! March this way ! " On that snjier-
natnral fiamhean more than a million refni^ees set their e\es. Moses and Aaron lead on.
Then come the families of Israel. Then come the herds and flocks niovinj;- on acru.ss the
.sands to what is the beach of waters now called I>ahr-el-lN.nlznni, bnt called in the I'ible
the Red vSea. .\nd when I dipped my hands in its bine waters the heroics of the Mosaic
passai^e rolled o\er mc.
.\fter three da\s" march the Israelitisli refn,y;ecs encamped fi)r the niu;ht on the bank
of the Red Sea. As the shadows begin to fall, in the distance is seen the host of Tharatih
in pnrsnit. There were
si.\ linndred finest war
charit)ts followed In
common chariots roll-
ing- at fnll speed. .\nd
the nunblinj;- of the
wheels and the cnr.se of
i n fnr iat ed l\^y]itian>
came down with the
darknes.s. Hnt the Lord
opened the crystal .^ales
of Hahr-el-KnlzUm and
the enslaved IsraeliL,--
jiassed into lil)ert)', ami
then the crystal ^ate>
of the .sea rolled slnit
against the Kgyptian
pnrsncrs, It was about
2 o'clock in the morning;
when the interlocked
axle-trees of the IC,!.;\ ] -
tian chariots conld not
mo\e an inch either
way. Hnt the Red vSea
nnhitched the horses, and nnhelnieted tiie warriors, and left the proud host a wreck on the
.Arabian .sands. Then two chorn.scs arose, and Moses led the men in the one and Miriam led
the women in the other, and the women beat time with their feet. The record ,savs : " .\ll
the women went out after lier with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered theiii,
Sing ye to the Lord, for He hath trituuphcd gloriously ; the horse and his rider hath He
thrown into the sea." What a thrilling stor\- of endurance and victorv ! The greate-t
trinm])h of HandeTs genius was shown in his immortal dramatic o';atorio, " I.srael in Kgvpi."
He had given to the world the oratorio of " Ksther and Deborah," and " Athaliali," but
reserved fi)r his mightiest e.\ertion at the full height of his powers the marshaling of : 11
nnisical instruments to the descripLion in liarmony of the scenes to which I have referre^i.
He gave twenty-.seven days to this production, with its twenty-eight choru.ses, enthrallii;,,'^
.\vr:Nri-: ok sphinxiis ami i;NTR.\Nei-: to tuI'; Ti;^n'i.ic ov kar.nak.
of fire ; and tin-
tfiil hand. Xol
iicli as the \V(iii(]
lo tlic liea\x'n, a
( )ii that sii])ei-
il Aaron lead on.
n^- on across the
lied in the I'.ible
.\s of the ^losaie
<iht on the bank
host of I'harauli
iiit. There \vei\-
ndred finest war
s followed li\
n chariots roll-
full speed. And
imblin^- of the
and the curse of
a ted ICf^yjitians
down with the
ss. Piutthel/inl
the crystal j^ales
r-el-Knl/.uni and
slaved Israelii.-,
into liberty, and
lie crystal j^au^
sea rolled shm
st the Kjryjilian
rs. It was about
-k in the morning
the interlockid
;es of the K,!l;> |-
ariots could in a
an inch either
lUit the Red .Sea
■t a wreck on the
? and Miriam led
?cord .says : "All
1 answered tluni,
is rider hath Ilr
■ ! The <;reat(.sl
Israel in Kqypt."
" Athaliah," bi:t
iiarshalini;- of ,11
I have referred.
u.ses, entlirallii;;,^
THH WORLD AS SICKX TO-DAY.
,49
his own tin.e and all after-tinu- with his "Israel in K,v,,t." So the burden of
...M-essun, was luted but another burden of H,vpt is n,ade up of de.r.s ,
n-.ca ,s a .reat continent ,or deserts-I.ibvan desert, Sahara desert, deserts' he ^ d
here md vonder, eondennnn. vast regions of Africa to barrenness, one of th 1 -s t
three tiu.usand nules lon^ and a thousand miles wide. I;„t all those d r wi
vet be flooded, and so made fertile. De Lessens s-.id it cm b,. ,1 „ i
P.anu.l the Sue. Canal, which marries the Ke^l S^i and' th^ M^lit! -a ^ U;: v d,.; ^
wa^talkm,- about The Innnan race is so „,ultiplied that it un.st have n.ore n hi t
lan.l, and the world nmst abolish its deserts. K.^Ut hundred nullion of the in a '
are now livinjr on lands not blest " 'uiman laee
with rains but dependent on
irri5,ration, and we want b\- irri-
gation to make room for eioht
hundred million more. By irri-
gation the i)rophccy will be ful-
filled, and "the desert will
blo.ssoni as the rose." So from
Egypt the burden of sand will
be lifted.
Another burden of Egvpt to
he lifted is the burden of AIo-
hammedauism, although there
are .some good things about that
religion. Its di.sciple.s mu.st
alwa\s wash before they pra>',
and that is five times a dav. A
connnendable grace is cieanli-
ue.ss. Strong drink is positively
forbidden by Mohammedans, and
though .some may have .seen a
drunken Mohaunncdan, I never
saw one. It is a religion of
sobriety. Then they are not
a.shamed of their devotions.
When the call for i)rayers is
sounded from the minarets the
^rohammcdan immediatelv uir
Ilia-K SCI'Nh; ON \ DAirAIlICAir
Is he lug on the ground and falls on his knees, and crowds of spectators are to
mn no embarrasMuent-reproof to , ,anv a Chri.stian who omits his pavers if pope
a e looking. But Mohau.medanism, with its polvgan.v, blights everv hin-. it touches
ohan.n. , Us founder, had four wives, and his foHowers i.e the enennes o go! , w , !
od. MohannnedaniMu puts its curse on all Egypt, and by .setting up a sinfnl.Xrab hi-h r
IKU, the nnmaculate Chnst, is an overwhebning blasphemv. Ma^C 'od help the brave a
consecrated nn.ss,ouaries who are .spending their lives in combating it - '
Ihit before I forget it I
outrage that rcstdted
make bricks without stn
in the libenit
nust put more em])hasis njKm the fact that tl
ion of the Hebre
le last
ws was
iw. That was the last straw that
tl
Dro
ke tl
leir being compelled to
le caniers back, (lod
350
THE EARTH Onu^LED.
would alluw the despotisin a<4aiii.st His i)eoplL' to ,<;o no ftutlicr. Makiiit,^ bricks with
straw
'I'hat (>i)pressi()ii still oocs on. Demand of \onr wife
tiful tal)Ie witiiont ])rovi(lin,i.,r tlie means ne
appropriate wanhobe and 1
out
)OU'il-
in the ])ul)lie scliool faitlifui and successful instructi
cessary : bricks without straw. Cities deuiandiui.
(I
K)]
iction without (.ivin.t;- the teachers com]H-
tcut liveiiluKxl : bricks without straw. United States Governnieit dcmandin<r of senator-
and cou-ressmen at Wasliin.yton full attendance to the interests of the peoplejMit on com-
pensation which may have done well enou<,di wlien twent\-five cents went as far as a dollar
now, but in these times is not sufficient to preserve their influence and respectabilit\ :
bricks without straw. In many parts of the land chnrches demandinj; of j)astors vi,<,ror()n-
scrmons and symi)athetic service on starvation salary, sanctified Ciceros on four hnndre
dollars a year: bricks without straw. That is one reason why there are so many ]k
bricks. In all departments, bricks
not even, or bricks that crninble,
or bricks that are not bricks at
all. Work adequately paid for is
worth more than work not ]x\\i]
for. More straw and then betler
bricks.
Hut in all departments then-
are Pharaohs : sometimes Capita!
a Pharaoh, and sometimes Laboi
a Pharaoh. When Capital pros-
pers, and makes lari^e percenta.i^i-
on its investment, and declines to
consider the needs of the oi)era-
tives, and treats them as so main
human machines, their nerves no
more tluiii the bands on the factorx
wheel — then Capital is a Pha-
raoh. On the other hand, wh.tii
workmen, not re<^ardincr the anxie-
ties and business strngcrles of the
firm employinc^ them, and at a
time when the firm are doins their best to meet an important contract and need all hands
busy to accomplish it, at such a time to have the employes make a strike and put their
employers into extreme perplexity and severe less— then Labor becomes a Pharaoh of the
worst oppression, i .id must look out for the :ud.i,nnents of God.
When, in my jonrneyiuirs, at the Museum at Bonlac, E^ypt, I looked at the mum-
mies of the old Pharaohs, the very miscreants who diabolized centuries, and I saw their
teeth and hair and finj^er iiadsand the flesh drawn tight over their cheek bones, the sarco-
pha.<,n of these dead monarclis side by side, and I was so fascinated I could only with diffi-
culty <,vet away from the sjHit, I was not lookinjr upon the last of the Pliarrohs. Pharach
thono;ht he did a fine thin,>,s a cnnnincr tliin<,^ a decisive thing, when for the complete
extinction of the Hebrews in Kj^ypt he ordered all the Hebrew bovs massacred but he did
(•.ki;at ham. (ii-- cor.r.MNS, karnak.
not find it so fine a thiii.<r when his own first-born that ni<dit of the destrov
...-. ...... .. .„. ....^ .1 uiiiiii; »inii 111^ uwu lUM-Doni iiiat ni<;iu oi I iic cicstroy 1 11,2; an_si;el oroppc fl
dead on the mosaic floor at the foot of the porphyry pillar of the palace. Let all the
THE WORLD AS SEEN TO-DAY.
r bricks without
Pharaohs take wan
vh
351
wlicii a man, because his arm is st
iiik^ Some ol' the worst of tl
roii>,r aiul Iiis voice loud, d
:ieiii are on a small scale in hoiisel
lolcN, as
omiiiates h
n-iestic sl-iv,.fv 'Vh .1 V '"i"'. (lomiiiates Ins ih.ov wife int., -i
rd)I)on, and an en(learin.<,v couplet, and
took her to concerts and tlieatres, and
helped her into carria.^es as thou<;h
slie were a princess, and ran across the
room to pick up her i)ocket-haudker-
chief with the spee.l of an antelope,
and on the marria,-re-dny jnonn'sed all
that the liturgy retpiired, savin.^-, " I
will ! " with an emphasis that excited
the ao uiration of all spectators. JUit
iin-,v he l)e,i,frndjres her two cents for
a postajre stamp, and wonders whv she
rides across IJrooklyn Ihidoe when the
foot-passaoe costs nothin,^-. He thinks
now she is awful plain, and he acts
like the devil, while he thunders out,
"Where did you o-et that new hat?
That's where my money goes. Where's
my breakfast? Do \ou call that
colTee? What are >ou whimpering
about? Hurry up now and get mv i'K"i'vi.n.N- of thmpij.: „i; ,si,s, ruITTT
slippers! Where's the newsnaner'" TI,p ton,, tl,.. i i .1 •
of a Pharaoh Tint i. .vl,n ' ^"^' ^''^ impatience, the crueltv
;:£E SS ■?= -^^^rie-i':::r ^b^::
av,m • ''"! °'"' '° o"t-Pharaoh the Egvptian oppressor. There is son e hi .'
CIIAI'TI-R XXXVIII.
THE ARCHIPELAGO.
©OOD-r.VIC, Ivu'vpt I Altli()u.s4li iiitciL'stiiin and iustnictivc l)c\oiul any conntrv in
all iIr- world, (.'xcc'iilin.s^^ tlu- Holy Land, I'-,i;yi)t was to me sonicwlial (k-prt-ssin.-^
It was a i)nst-niorti.ni fxaniination of cities that died lonr thousand \ears a-M.
The nmniniies, or wiai)pL'd-ui) bodies of the dead, were prepared with referenc.-
to the Resurrection Day, the I'-j^yjitians departinj^ tliis life wantin.^- their bodies to l)e kepi
in as <;()od condition as possible so that thev would be ])resentable when tlie\- were callcl
a.<;ain to occni)y them. Hut if when Pharaoh comes to resurrection he finds his body look-
iuo- as I saw his mummy in the Mnsenni at Boulac, his sold will become an uiiwillint,^ tenai:l.
The Sphinx also was to me a stern monstrosity, a statue carved out of rock of red <,naniti.-,
sixt\-two feet hi<,di and about one hundred and forty-three feet lon<,f and havini:;- the head
of a man and the body of a lion. We sat down in the sand of the .\frican desert to stndv
it. With a cold smile it lias looked down ujioii thousands of years of earthly historv ;
I';.^\ptian civilization, Creciaii civilization, Roman civilization; upon the rise and fall d
thrones inminierable ; the victory and defeat oi the armies of centuries, It took thiit,-
thousand years to make one wrinkle on its red check. It is dreadful in its stoliditv. Its eves
have never wept a tear. Its cold ears have not li.steued to the j^^roans of the Ki,npti:iii
nation. Its lieart is .stone. It cared not for Pliny wlien lie measured it in the first centnr\.
It will care nothiii,','- for the man who looks into its imperturbable Lountenance in the Li~t
century.
lint lys^npt will yet come np to the ,<,r!ow of life. The Bible promises it. The nr-
sionaries, like my friend, .^ood and .q-reat Doctor Lansin<;-, are sounding- a resurrection
trumpet abcjve those slain emiiires. There will be .some other Joseph at Memphi,s. Tluiv
will he .some other Moses on the banks of the Nile. There will be .some other Ihpatia tu
teach .i^ood morals to the .le.<,rraded, WHien, .soon after my arrival in K,i,^ypt, I took part in
the solemn and tender obsequies of a missionary from our own land, dvintr there tar aw,i\
from the sepulchres of her fathers, and ,saw around her the dusky and weepin.tr con.^-regation
of those whom she had come to .save, I said to my.self : " Here is self-.sacrifice of the noblest
tyi)e. Here is heroism immortal. Here is a qtieen unto God forever. Here is somethin;.,'
t^rander than the Pyramids. Here is that which thrills the liea-;ens. Here is a specimen of
that which will yet .save the world,"
(iood-bye, I'-.ijypt ! This cliajiter finds us on the steamer Minerva in the Grecian Arelii-
pela.i^o, the islands of the Xew Testament, and islands Paulinian and Johannian in tlnir
reminiscence. What P.radshaw's Directory is to travelers in luiroiK, and what the railnu.l
guide is to travelers in .Vmerica, the P.ook of the .Vets in the P.ible is to voya<;ers in l!ie
Grecian, or as I shall call it, the Gospel .\rchii)elat;o. The P.ible !^aM).^-raphy (.)f that re.i;i'm
is accuKite without a shadow of mistake. We are sailin,^ this mornin.i;- on the snne
waters that P.uil sailed, l)Ut in the opposite direction to that which Paul vo>-aged. He was
sailing southward and we northward. With him it was, Plphesus, Coos, Rhodes, Cypn:>;
md any country in
iL-wliat (Icprt-ssiiiL;.
lousand years a,L;".
red willi refcrenc,-
■ bodies to be kejH
1 tliey were called
nds his ])t)dy look-
, imwillinjr teuanl.
ck of red <rranile,
1 liavint;- tlie head
■an desert to stndv
f earthly hislorx ;
le rise and fall d
.■s, It took llnvf
stolidity. Itseve>
s of the Ej^yptiaii
1 the first cenliirx.
enance in the la-t
ises it. The m':<-
UiT a resurreetidii
Menipliis. There
other Hypatia in
■pt, I took part in
ii.tr there far a\va\
pin,i( con<;rei;ati(>ii
fice of the nobk'-l
Here is soniethiii;.,'
2 is a specimen of
he Grecian Arelii-
)liannian in their
what the railn^d
) voyai^ers in t!ie
)hy of that rei^i'iu
in<;- on the sinie
'oyajred. lie was
Rhodes, Cypni> ;
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THE EARTH GH^DLED.
T
witli us it is reversed, and it is Cyprus, Rhodes, Coos, Ivplicsus. Tlicrc is no book in tlk-
world so accurate as llie Divine liook. Paul left Cyiirns on the luft ; wc, ^H)iu<,^ in the o]>] ..-
site direction, have it on the right.
We had stopped during the night and in the morning the ship was as qiuet as a fli",:,
when we hastened up to the deck and found that we had anc'iored off tlie island of C\ pvi;^.
In a l)oat, which the natives rowed standing up, as is the custom, instead of sitting down .1^
when we row, we were soon landed on tlie streets where Paul and P)arnabas walked ar, 1
])reached. Yea, when at Antioch Paul and Barnabas got into a fight — as ministers sonu-
tiuies did, and s(Mnctinies do, for tliey ;dl have imperfections enough to anclu^r them to this
world till their work is done — I say, when because of that bitter controversy Paul and I'>:n-
nabas ])arte(l, Barnabas came 1)ack here to Cypnrs, which was his birthplace. Island won-
derful for historv ! It has been the prize sometimes won by Persia, by dreecc, by Hg\i>l,
by the Saracens, by the Cru.saders, and last of all, not by swoid Imt by pen, and that llie
pen of the keenest dii)lomatist of the centiny, Lord Beaconsfieid, who under a lease wliii !i
was as good as a purchase, set Cvprus anu-ng the jewels of Victoria's crown. We went i.;!t
int(j the excavations from which I)i Cesnola has enriched our American nnisenms with antitj-
nities, and with no better weapon than our foot we stirred up the ground deep enough to
get a tear-l)ottle in whicli some mourner slu'd his tears thousands of years ago, and a lainp
whicli before Christ was born lighted the feet of some jioor pilgrim on his wa\-. That island
of Cvprus has eiujugh to set an autitiuarian wild. The most of its glory is the glory of the
past, and the typhoid fevers that sweep its coast, and the clouds of locusts that olteii
blacken its skies (though two hiuidred thousand dollars were expended by the P.ritish
Empire in one year for the extirpation of these noxious insects, \et failing to do the work),
and the frequent change of governmental masters, hinder jirosperity. But when the islamls
of the sea come to Ood, Cyjirtis will come with them, and the agricultural and connnercial
opulence wliich adorned it in ages jiast will be eclipsed by the agricidtm'al and commenial
and religious triumphs of the ages to come. Why is the world so stupid that it cannot see
that nations are prosiiered in temjioral things in jiroportion as thc>- are prospered in religiuti-,
things? Ciodliuess is profitable not only for individmds but for nations. Give Cypru> to
Christ, give ICngland to Christ, give .\merica to Christ, give the world to Christ, and He
will give them all a prosperity unlimited. Why is I>rook!yn one of the queen cities of the
earth? Because it is the queen city of churches. Blindfold me and lead me into any city
of the earth so that I cannot sec a street or a warehouse or a home, and then lead me into
the clnnxhes and then renu)ve the bandage from my eyes, and I will tell you from what I
see inside the consecrated walls, having seen nothing outside, what is that city's niercliau-
dise, its literature, its schools, its printing-presses, its government, its homes, its arts, its
sciences, its jirosperitv, or its depression, and ignorance, and pauperism and outlawry. The
altar of God in the church is the high-water mark of the world's happiness. The Christian
religion triumphant, all other interests trimnphant. The Christian religion low down, all
other interests low down. So I thought as on the evening of that day we stepped
from the filthy streets of I.arnaca, Cyprus, on to the boat that took us back to
the steamer, which had already begun to paw the waves like a courser impatient to
be gone, and then we moved on and up among the islands of this Gospel Archipehii^o.
Night came down on land and sea and the vo\age became to me more and more suuLjes-
tive and solemn. If you are ])acing it alone, a ship's deck in the darkness and at sea is a
weird place, and an active imagination may conjure up almost any shape he will, and it
shall walk the sea or confront him by the smoke-stack, or meet him under the captain's
TFIK \V(-'LD AS SKHX TO-DAY.
; is no book in tin
j;oin^' in the opj ...
> as quiet as a flcK,:,
e island of Cvpn;-.
1 of sittin<,' down ,i-
irnabas walked ai;!
•as ministers souk-
anchor tlicni to tli;>
versy Paul and II.ii-
placL'. Island wmi-
• (ircecc, by K.u'a pi,
• pen, and that ihv
nidcr a lease wliirli
)\vn. We went out
iiuscunis with antK]-
md deep cnouj^Ii lo
irs aj^o, and a lam])
s \va\'. That island
• is the .i^lory of the
locusts that olUii
ided by the IJritish
in<j; to do the work),
;ut wdien the islands
ral and connuercial
ival and couiuKiiial
id that it cannot see
rospered in reli,L;inu-.
is. Give Cypni> to
1 to Christ, and He
■ queen cities of the
id nic into any city
d then lead nie into
;11 yon from what I
that city's nierclian-
; lionies, its arts, its
md outlawry. Tlie
;iess. The Christian
i<:jion low down, all
lat day we stejiiKnl
took US back to
ourser impatient to
lospel Archipelago.
e and more sn.L;L;es-
niess and at sea is a
;hape lie will, ami it
under the captain's
355
>ru oe I.„t h,re I was alone on ship's deck in the C.ospel .Xrehipela^n, and do v,.„ wn„der
that the sea was pnp„Io„s with the pa.st and that down the ratlines Bible nu-mnries
descended^ (.ur Ir.euds •had all oo„, „ their berths. "Captain." I .aid, "when
^hallwe arrive at the Island of Rhodes- I.,..kin.r out from under his ,da/ed cap
ne responded m .sepulchral voice : " .M.out midnight." Tl,uu,h it would be keepin'.'
anseasonable liours, I concluded to stav on deck, for I must s.. Rhodes, .,ue of the
..lands associated with the name of the greatest niissioiKU. the world ^ver saw or
•Avr wdl .see. lau lauded there and that was euouoh to u.ake it famous while the
wo.ld .stands, and famous ui heaven when ,1„ -u ,,„. ,„,,„„, ^, ^,,,,„.„.,, ^^.,.^.^,,^
worlil
CHURCH OI- SAN CICOKC.K) MAGC.IORK, VH.MCK, IT.'^^,^■
I his island has had a wonderful history. With .si.v tlumsand Kniohts of St John it at
onetime .stood out a-ainst two hundred thousand warriors under " Solvman th'e Ma<niifi-
cent." The city had three thou.sand .statues, and a statue to Apollo called Colossus, which
has always since been considered one of the .seven won.lers of the world. It was twelve
vears m building and was seventy cubits hioh, and had a windin- stairs to the top It stood
fittv-six- years and then was prostrated by an earthquake. After Iving in ruins for nine
iHuidred years, it was purchased to be converted to other purpo.scs, and the metal, wei-diiiiL^
'^cveii hundred and twenty thou.sand pound
awav
\\
e were not permitted to go ashore, but the lights all
s, was put on nine hundred camels and c;
irrie(
where the city stands, and nine boats come out to take freight and to l)riu<>- tl
up and down the hills .show
iree passengers.
35(^
TIIIC I-:.\RTH CIRDIJCI).
Vil all llu' lliniisaiids of wars of its Iiistory aiv fi'li])>i(l li\ the few lioinsor (la\s t!iat I'.m!
.St()])lil-<1 tlKTe.
.\^ wi.' iiiDxi.' oil up tliioui^li tlii> Arrliipi'lii'ir, I am niiiiiKK/d of wliat an iiiipoitaut ]ia;
tJK' islands liavf takiii in llii history uf tin- world. TIkv aio iK'Ci.'s>ary to the bahniciii ■
of till- plaint. The two iKiiiisplR'ns must liave tlniii. .\s you ])Ut down upon a scale lli.
lie.ivs' pound wii.niits, and then the small oiiiux>, and iio one thinks of despisiuo the sm;i''.
wei.i^lits, so the eoiitiiieiils ail' the ]ioniids and the islaii'ls are the oiiiiee> .\ continent i-
«)nl\- a larmier island and an island oiiI> a smaller eoiitiiunl. Soiiielhiu.i^df what part lln
islands have taken in the world's liistorv \on will st e win n I remind von that the island ni
Salamis ]>roduced .Solon, and that the islaml of Chio-- jToiluced Homer, and tlu- island o'
Sanios iiroduced I'ylliai^oras and the island ol" Coos produced Hi|>]iocrale>.
Ihit there is one island that I loiit^ed to see more than aii\- otlu'r. I can afford to mi"
the princes anio'ii; the isi.iuds, hut I iiiu-t sie the kiii^; of the .\rchii)ela.L;i>. The one i
Ioii!^e<l to See is not so many miles in cireumlennce as C\ luus or Crete or I'aros or Xas''^
or .Scio or Mitvleiie, hut 1 would rather, in this sail lhrou.!.;li the (irei-ian Archipela.mi, see
that than all the othiis ; for more of the idories of liea\ en lainKd there than on all the
islands and contineiils since the world stood. As we come toward it I feel m\- iniUt ^
(inicken. " I, John, was in the island that is called I'almo>." ! is a pile of rocks lweiit\-
eiiLjht mils in circumference. .\ few cypresses and iiit'erior olive-, ptiiiii) a liviiii^f out of tli ■
varth, and one palm tree spreads its foli;\i;e. Hut the barrenness and .i^loom and loneliiu-,,
of the island made it a prison for the banished exam^elisl. Domilian couhl not stand Iin
ministry and one day, nudcr armed jmiard, that minister of the (lospel stejiped from a tossing'
boat to these dismal rocks, and walked up to the dismal cavern which was to l)c his lioiiie
and tlic place where should pass before him all the con. cts of comin,L,r time and all thr
raptures of a comin.L!: cteruitx-. Is it not remarkable tha. iiearh' all the i^ivat re\elat'ons of
music and jioetry and reIi.i.;ion liave been made to men in banishment I — Homer and Aliltnii
banished into blindress; liecthoveii banished into deatne.ss ; Dante writir.-,'- his Dixiiia
Commcdia durin,<^ the nineteen years of banishment from his native land ; X'ictor Vl\i'^r
writing;- his Les Miserables exiled from lionie and country on the island of (iuernsev, :uiil
tlic briijlitcst visions of the future ha\e been <^i\cu to those who b\- sickness or sorrow weir
e.xiled from the outer world into rooms of sutTerin.!:;. Only those who ha\e been imi)risoiieil
by very hard surroundiii<:^s have liad .threat re\elations made to them. So I'atmos, wild,
chill and bleak and terrible, was the best island in all the .\rchi]iela,^(), the best place in all
the earth for di\-ine revelations. liefore a panorama can be successfulh' seen, the room in
wliich you sit must be darkened, and in the presence of John was to jiass such a ])an()raina
as no man ever before saw or ever will see in this world, and hence the i^doom of his
surroundini^s was a helji rather tiiaii a hindrance. .\11 the surroundin<;s of the pl.nv
ailected St. John's ima.tjery when he speaks of heaven. St. John, lmn.<;ry from eiiforn.]
abstinence, or haviii.n' no food excejit that at which his a])])etite revolted, thinks of heaven ;
and as the famished man is apt to dre;un of bountiful tables covered with luxuries, so St.
Jolin sa\s of the inhabitants of heaven, " The\- shall hun.yer no more." vScarcity of fie-ii
water on Tatinos, and the hot tongue of vSt. John's thirst leads him to admire heaven as Ik-
says, " They shall thirst no more." .St. John hears the waves of the .sea wildly dash Iml;
a,i;aiiist the rocks, and each wave has a voice and all the waves toi^cther make a chorus xnl
they remind liim of tlie multitndinons anthems of lieaven ; and he sass, " They are like
tlie voice of ma-.iy waters." : )ne day, as lie looked off u])on the sea, the waters were vt rv
smooth, as it was the dav we .sailed them, and tliev were like "lass and the sunlijjht .scciimI
or (l.us tluit I'.M!
all iiuportaiit ]i,i'
In till' I)al>llK'ill •
1 \i|)()U a scale lli.
.■.spisiiisj; tlif Mii.i'!
;. A coiiliiK'iU :
of what part llh
tliat tlif island m
ami iIk- islaiul o'
call aliord to mi-.-
ai^o. TIk' OIK' I
)r I'aros or Xax'^^
Aicliipc'Ia.no, >t 1-
than on all tin-
I ffi-l my juil^i ^
.' of rocks iwcntN -
liviiii^ out of til
oiii and loiu'lim ■
lid not stand lii^
pcd from a tosMiii;
s to be liis lionu-
tiiiK' and all tlir
oat rL'\flat'i)iis ci"
loiiRT and Aiiltnii
ritir.,L,r his Dixina
11(1 ; \'ictor Iltii^r
of (riiLTiiSfV, and
jss or sorrow nwh-
L' bfcii ini])risoiKd
So I'atiiKJs, wild,
L- best place in all
■^ccii, the room iii
such a i)aiiorania
the j^loom of his
ii<i;s of the ])l,ue
i;ry from cnforcnl
thinks t)f heavi II ;
h luxuries, so St.
vScarcity of frr-ii
iiire heaven a> lie
;ea wildly dasliin;.^
iiake a chorus ami
S "They are ITkc
■ waters were \i i \'
e siliiliijht seeimd
35-^
TMK KARTH GIRDLED.
to si-t tluMii Oil fiiv, and there was a iiiiiiHliiiK: "f white li«;ht and intense flame ; and a.
vSl. John looked out from his cavern home upon tliat hrilliaiil sea, lie thoiij^lil of the
splendors of heaven and describes them " as a sea of j^jlass niinj^led with fire."' Yes, seated
ill the dark cavern of I'atnios, thou^di homesick and hnnurv and loaded with I)omitian\
anathemas, St. John was the most fortunate man on earth because of the paiU'Miiia that
passed before the month of that cavern.
Turn down all the lij^hts that we may better see it. The ])anorania passes, and lol the
coii(|iieriiiK Christ, robed, girdled, armed, the flash of golden candlesticks, and seven star> in
His ri>;ht hand, candlesticks and stars meaiiiu^' li<,dit held np and lij.;ht scattered. And
there passes a throne and Christ on it, and the seals are broken, aiul the woes sounded, and
a dia<,M)n slain, and seven last plaf,nies swoop, and seven vials are poured out, and the vision
vanishes. And we halt a moment to rest from the excitin>; spectacle. A>,^ain the panorama
moves oil 1)efore the cavern of Tatiuos, and John the exile sees a j^reat city lepreseiitini.'; all
al)ominations, Hal)\ Ion towered, i)alaced, templed, foimtained, foliaj^ed, senlplnred, hani^ini;-
};ardened, suddenly }^n)in,<,r crash! crash I and the pipers cease to pipe, and the trnmpits
cease to trumpet, and the dust and the smoke and thv horror fill the canvas, while from
above and beneath are voices anuonncinjj;, " ISabylon is fallen, is fallen ! " And we h,. It
aj^ain to rest from the spectacle. Aj^aiii the panorama moves on before the cavern of
Patnios, and John the exile beholds a city of j>;old, and a river more beautiful than the
Rhine or the Hudson rolls throu}:^h it, and fruit trees bend their burdens on either bank,
and all is surrounded by walls in which the upholstery of antumnal forests, and the sunrises
and sunsets of all the a.i^es, and the <,'h)ry of burning' worlds seem to be commini^led. And
the inhabitants never breathe a si<,di, or utter a ^roau, or discuss a difference, or frown a
dislike, or weep a tear. The fashion they wear is pure white, and their foreheads aic
encircled by •Garlands, and they who were sick are well, and they who were old are yoiinu,
and they wdio were bereft are reunited. And as the last li-nre of that ])aiioraiiia rolled out
of sight, I think that John must have fallen b u-k into his cavern, nerveless and exhanstnl.
Too much was it for human eye to look at. Too much was it for human streii^nh to
experience.
As on that dav in the Grecian Arcliipelago, Patmos began to fade out of sight, I
walked to the stern of the ship thai I might keep my eye .n the eiichantiuei\t as long as I
could, and the voice that sounded out of heaven to John the exile in the cavern on Patiiids
.seemed .sounding in the waters that dashed against the side of our shii) : " Behold, llic
tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they .shall be His people,
and (^od Himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God .shall wipe away all tears
from their eves ; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall
there be any more pain : for the former things are passed away."
CHAPTER XXXIX.
EPHCSUS.
OUR next landinfr was at Smyrna, a city of Asiatic Turkey. One of the seven
clmrclies of Asia uuce stood lure. Von read in Revtlation, "To the clinrcli in
Smyrna write." It is a city that lias often been sliaktn by earthciiiake, swept
by conflaj;ration, blasted by iila<,Mies, and l)utc]iered by war, and here Hishop
Polycarp stood in a crowded amphitheatre, and when he was asked to <,nve up the advocacy
of the Christian relii,don and save himself from martyrdom, the pro-consnl sayinj;, ".Swear
and I release thee; reproach Christ," replied : " Eighty and six years have I served Him,
and He never did me wronjr ; bow then can I revile my Kinj; and .Saviour?" When he
was bronfrht to the fires into which he was about to be thrust, and the ofTicials were about
to fasten him to the stake, he said : " Let me remain as I am, for He who },riveth v strenj,nh
to sustain the fire will enable me also, withcmt your .secnrin<,' me with uaiK, to remain
unmoved in the fire." History says the fires refused to consume him ; and under tiie winds
the flames bent outward so that they did not touch his jiersoii, and therefore he was slain
by swords and spears. One cypress bendinjr over his <Trave is the oni' monument to Bishop
Polycarp.
Put we are on the way to the city of I';phesus. We must see P^phesus— associated
with the most wonderful apostolic .scenes. We hire a special railway train, and in about an
hour and a half wc arrive at the city of p:phesus, which was called " The Great Metropolis
of Asia,'' and "One of the Eyes of Asia," and "The Pjupress of Ionia," the capital of
all learninj-: and magnificence. Here, as I said, was one of the seven churches of Asia, and
first of all we visit the ruins of that church where once an .Ecumenical Council of two
tliousand ministers of religion was held.
Mark the fulfillment of the prophecy ! Of the seven churches of Asia, four were
commended in the book of Revelation and three were doomed. The cities having the
four commended churches still stand ; the cities ha\ ing the three doomed churches are
wiped out. It occurred just as the Bible said it would occur. Drive on and von come to
the theatre, which was six hundred and sixty feet fr> .m wall to wall, capable of holding
fifty-six thousand seven hundred spectators. Here and there the walls arise almost unbroken,
but for the most part the building is down. Just enough oi' it is left to help the imagination
build it up as it was when those audiences shouted and clai)ped at some great spectacle.
Their huzzas must have been enough to stun the heavens. Standing there, we could not
foro;et that in that building once assembled a throng riotous for Paul's condemnation,
becau.se what he preached collided with the idolatry of their national goddess. Paul tried to
get into that theatre and address tin excited muititude, but his friends held him back lest
he be torn in pieces by the mob, and the recorder of the city had to read the Riot Act
among the people who had shrieked for two mortal hours, till their throats were sore and
they were black in the face, " Great is Diana of the Ephesiaus."
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THK KARTH GIRDLED.
U'> •!
Now \VL' sU'p into llic Staditmi. lviioti}j;-h of its walls and apiioiutiiicnts is left to show
what a stupciulous i)lacc it innsl have hcL'ii when used for foot races and for fi},dits witli wiil
l)easts. It was a building six hundred and ciohty feet lon,t; and two hundred fi. i
wide. Paul refers to what transpired there in the way of spectacle when he sa\ -,
"We have been made a s])ect:icle." Yes, Paul savs, "I have fou<,dit with beasts ai
Ephesus," an expression usually taken as fi<,nirative, but I suppose it was literal!'.
triic, for one of the aniusenients in that Stadium was to put a disliked man in the aren.,
with a hungry lion or tiger or panther, and let the fight go on until either the man
or the beast or both were slain. And was there ever a more unequal combat proposed '
Paul, according to tradition, small, crooked-backed and weak-eyed, but the grandoi
F.PI I KSI;S R KSTOR F.n.
man in sixty centuries, is led to the centre, as the ]ico])le shout, "There he comes, the
preacher who has nearly ruined our religion, 'i'lie lion will make but a brief mouthful
of him." It is plain that all the sympathies of that crowd arc with the lion. In oik-
of the underground rooms I hear the growl of the wild beasts. They have been k^pt
for several days without food or water, in order that they may be especially ravenous ami
bloodthirsty. What chance is there for Paul ? Ihit yon cannot tell by a man's sizcT
looks how stout a blow he can strike or how keen a blade he can thrust. Witness, hea\i u
and earth and hell, this struggle of Paul with a wild l)east. The coolest man in the S.i-
dium is Paul. What has he to fear? He has defied all the powers, earthly and inferii,;),
and if his bodv tumble under the foot and tooth of the wild beast, his soul will onlv tin--
sooner find disenthralment. But it is his duty, as far as possible, to preserve his life. Nrnv
•nts is left to slidw
jr li^lits witli will
two Imnclred lli i
Ic wlicii he sax -,
it with beasts .1;
■ it was literal 1\
man in the arena
1 either the man
:oinbat proposed '
but the grandest
re he comes, tlie
a brief mouthful
the lion. In diic
have been kept
ally ravenous :\<m\
• a man's size t
Witness, hea\ . 11
t man in the S;,i-
:hly and infeni.!!,
ml will only liie
ve his life. N'>\v
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THE p:arth girdled.
i t
I hear tlic bolt of the wild least's door shove back, and the whole audience rise to their
feet as the fierce brute spriuj^^s for the arena and toward its small occupant. IJut the little
missionarv has his turn of niakinjr attack, and with a few well-directed thrusts the monster
lies dead in the dust of the arena, and the apostle puts his ri.t;ht foot on the lion and shake-^
him, and then puts his left foot on him and shakes him— a scene which Paul afterward
uses' for an illustration when he wants to show how Christ will triumph over death : " He-
must rei*,ni till He hath put all enemies under His feet ; " yes, under His feet. Paul told tlu-
literal truth wiicn he said, " I have fou<,dit with beasts at Ephesus," and as the plural is used
I think he had more than one such fight, or several beasts were let loose upon him at om-
time. As we stood that day in the middle of the Stadium and looked around at the ^\vM
structure the whole scene came back upon us.
P.ut, we pass out of the Stadium, for we are in haste for other places of interest in
Ephesus. To add to the excitement of the day one of our party was missing. Xo man is
safe in that region alone unless he be armed and know how to take sure aim and not mi.s>
fire. Our companion had gone out on some explorations of his own, and through the gate
where Paul had walked again and again, yet where no man unaccompanied .should ventun.
now. But, after some time had passed, and every minute seemed as long as an hour, and
we had time to imagine everything horrible in the way of robbery and assassination, the
lost traveler a])peared, to receive from our entire party a volley of expostulation for tlie
arousal of so many an.xieties.
In the midst of this city of Ephesus once floated an artificial lake, brilliant with painlcl
boats and through the River Caystros it was connected with the sea, and siiips from all
parts of the known earth floated in and out carrying on a commerce which made Eplusns
the envy of the world. Great was Ephesus ! Its gymnasia, its hippodrome, its odeon, lis
athenccum, its forum, its aqueducts (whose .skeletons are still strewn along the city), its
towers, its castle of Hadrian, its monument of Androclus, its quarries, which were iIk-
granite cradle of cities ; its temples, built to Apollo, to Minerva, to Xeptune, to Mercur\ .
to Bacchus, to Hercules, to Ca;sar, to Fortune, to Jupiter Olympus. That which history and
poetry and chisel and canvas have not presented, has come up at the call of archaeologists"
powder-blast and crowbar.
But I have now to unveil the chief wonder of this chiefest of cities. In 1863, under
the patronage of the English Government, Mr. Wood, the explo cr, began at Ephesus u>
feel along linder the ground at great depths for roads, for walls, for towers, and here it is—
that for which Ephesus was more celebrated than all else besides— the Temple of the (god-
dess Diana, called the sixth wonder of the world ; and we stood awhile amid the ruins ol
that temple, measuring its pillars, transfixed by its sculinure, and confounded at what was
the greatest temple of'idolatry in all time. As I sat on a piece of one of its fallen colunn;s,
I said, " What earthquake rocked it down, or what hurricane pushed it to the earth, nr
mulerwhat strong wind of centuries did the giant struggle and fall? " There have iHrii
seven temples of Diana, the ruins of each contributing something for the .splendor ol all
its architectural successors. Two hundred and twenty years was this last temple in in-
struction. Twice as long as the United States has stood was that temple in building. It
was ncarlv twice as large as St. Paul's Cathedral, London. Lest it should be disturbed hv
earthquakes, which have always been fond of making those regions their play-ground, the'
temple was built on a marsh, which was made firm b>- layers of charcoal covered b>' fleeces
of wool. The stone came from the (piarry near-by. After it was decreed to build the
temple, it was thought it would be necessary to bring the building stone from other lands,
ence rise to tluii
nt. But the link-
mists the moiistn
lie lion a!icl shakt^
ch Paul afterward
over death : " IK-
■ct. Paul told tlir
^ the plural is usul
; upon him at om
round at the i^wM
:iccs of interest in
ssintj. No man is
aim and not miss
1 through the s;ali.-
ied should ventuiv
i<r as an hour, and
1 assassination, iIk-
postulation for tin.-
Iliaiit with paiiikd
and siiips from all
licli made Ephesns
onie, its odeoii, its
ilon,<>- the cit\). it>
■s, which were iIr-
ituuc, to Mcrcniy,
which history and
1 of archa;ok)j^ist>'
s. In 1S63, uikUi
ran at l^jihcsus lo
IS, and here it is —
'eiiiplc of the (iod-
amid the ruins <il'
inded at what was
its fallen column^,
it to the earth, nv
There have bun
the splendor of all
last temple in cvn-
ile in buildin,e:. it
iild be disturbed bv
Mr play-.a;round, ilif
1 covered by fleeces
.-creed to build the
le from other lands,
STATl-K UF DIANA IN Tilli Kl'HKSIAN TK.MPI.K.
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THE KARTH GIRDLED.
but one day a shepherd l)y the name of Pixodorus, while \vatchin,u^ liis flocks, saw two
rams fij^ditinj;, and as they nii;::ed the interiockinjr of their horns and one fell, his horn
knocked a splinter from the rock and showed by that splinter the lustrous whiteness of the
rock. The shepherd rnn to the city with a jiiece of that stone, which revealed a quarry
from which place the ; mple was built, and every month iu all ai;es since, the mayor of
Kphesus <roes to that cjuarry to offer sacriticcs to the memory of that shepherd who discov-
ered this source of splendor and wealth for the cities of Asia Minor. In removinj^- the
(jreat stones from the quarry to their destnicd places in the temple, it was necessary, in
order to keep the wheels, which were twelve feet in diameter, from sinkiujj deep int • thu
earth under the unparalleled heft, that a frame of tind)ers be arranj^ed over which \.\v:
wheels rolled. To jnit the innnense block of marble in its jjlace over the doorway of one
of these temples was so vast and difficult an undcrtakinjr that the architect at one time
<rave it up, aiul in his cha.y^rin inteiuled suicide ; but one ni<>ht in his sleep he dreamt that
the stone had settled to the ri.i,dit place, and the next day he found that the ,<,^reat block oi
marble had by its own wei,q;ht settled to the rij,dit place. The Temple of Diana was four
hundred and twenty-fuv feet l(m<v by two hundred and twenty feet wide. All .\sia wa>
taxed to pav for it. It had one hundred and twenty-seven pillars, each sixty feet hi<i;h, ami
each tlie j^ift of a kiny and inscribed with the name of the donor. Now you see the mean-
ing of that passat^c in Revelation, just as a kin,q; presentin<j one of these pillars to the Tem-
])le of Diana had his own name chiseled on it and the name of his own country, so sa\>
Chris:.: " Him that ovcrcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my (iod, and I will
write ujjon him the name of my (iod, and the name of the city of my Crod, which is New
Jerusalem, and I will write ui)ou him my new name." How su<>(^estive and beautiful !
In addition to those pillars that I climbed over while amid the ruins of Diana's
Tr-mple, I saw afterward eij^^ht of those jtillars in Constantinople, to which city they had
been removed, and are now a part of the Moscpie of St. Sophia. Those eight cohnnns are
all green jasper, but some of those which stood in Diana's Temple at ICphesus were fairly
drenched with brilliant colors. Co.stly metals stood up in various parts of the tem]>le,
where thev coidd catch the fullest flush of the sun. A flight of stairs was carved out of one
grape vine. Doors of cvpress wood which had been kept in glue for years and bordered
with bron/.e in bas-relief, swung against pillars of brass, and resounded with echo upon echo,
caught 'p, aiul .sent on, and hurled back through the corridors. In that building stood an
image 01 Diana, the goddess. The impression wa.s abroad, as the Bible records, that that
image dropped phunb out of heaven into that temple, and the sculptors who really made
the statue or image were put to death, so that they could not testify of its manufacture and
.so denv its celestial origin. Ihit the material out of wdiich the image of Diana was fash-
ioned contradicts that notion. This inuige was carved out of ebony and pmictured here
aiul there with openings kejit full of spikenard so as to hinder the statue from decaying
and make it aromatic, but this ebony was covered with bronze and alabaster. A necklace
of acorns coiled gracefully around her. There were four lions on each arm, typical of
.strength. Her head was coronettcd. Around this figure stood statues which by wonderlul
invention shed tears. The air by strange machinery was damp with descending perfuuus.
The walls undtiplied the scene by concaved mirrors. Fountains tossed in sheaves of light
and fell in showers of diamonds. One painting in that temple cost #i93'7.S"- '^1'*-' treas-
ures of all nations and the spoils of kingdoms were kept here for safe deposit. Criminals
from all .ands fled to the shelter of this temple, and the law could not touch them. It
seemed almo.st strange that this mountain of architectural snow outside did not melt with
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365
be fires of color w.tlnn. Tl,c temple uas .nrvou.uk.l with K^roves, in which n.a,nc,l Inr
the teniptation c.f In.nters, stuRs and hares and wild boars, and all st^■k.s of uame, whether
winded or fonr-footed. There was a cave with statne so intenselv l,rilliant that it extin-
KUished the eyes of those who looked npon it, nnless, at the command of the priests tlu'
hand of tlie spectator somewhat shaded tlie eyes. Xo wonder that even Anthonv an.l
Alexander and Darnis cried ont in the words of mv text: "Creat is Diana of the Enlie-
()ne month of each year, the month of ^kay, was devoted to her worship. Processions
myarbsof purple and violet and scarlet moved thron<,rh the temple, and there were torches,
WHIRMNC; DERVISHHS OF CONSTANTINOPLE.
).u. a. conn,,., u, t,.n,.„ a™,„„ n. a u.::^;-^ -i^H^.^^^ ::^ut:::':;;;:;is:-. ^^
and antiiem.s, and choirs in white, an<] tind^rels and triangles in nnisic, sacrifices and dances
Here yonn- men and maidens were betrothed with imposin- ceremonv. Nations voted
larn^e amotmts to meet the expen.se of the worship. Fisheries of vast resource were devote.l
to the .support of tins resplendence. Horace and \-ir,cril and Homer went into rhapsodies
w,n!e descnbiu- this worship. .Ml artists, all arclueolo-ists, all centnries aj-reed in savin<r
'(rreat is Dinn.n of tho Knl.,.i;Jniic " i>„,,i ;., .1,. __ „<• .,,,• ^rv , ^ ... .' '^'
ot tins Temple of Diana incor-
porates it in Ills figures of speech while spcakinj^- of tl
le spiritual temple : " Now, if any
>!.
•I
1
4,
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THE EARTH GIRDLED.
man ])uilcl upon tliis fonndatioii ,t;ol(l, silver, precious stones, etc.," and no doubt with refer-
ence to one of tile previous temples which had Ijeen set on fire by Hcrostratus just for the
fame of destroying; it, Paul says: "If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer tess,
etc.," and all up and down Paul's writinj^s you realize that he had not only seen, but had
been mijrhtily impressed with what he had seen of the Temple of Diana.
In this city the mother of Jesus was said to have been buried. Here dwelt Aquila and
Priscilla of Bible niciiti(jn, who were professors in an extemporized theoloj^ical seminary,
and they tan<;ht the eloquent ApoHos how to be eloquent for Christ. Here John preached,
and from here because of his fidelity he was exiled to Patinos. Here Paul warred against
the magical arts for which Kphesus was famous. The sorcerers of this city pretended that
they could cure diseases and perform almost any miracle, by pronouncin.ir these senseless
words: " Aski Cataski Lix Tetrax DiMunamenens Aision." Paul liavinj; performed a
miracle in the name of Jesus, there was a lyinj,^ family of seven brothers who imitated the
apostle, and instead of their
usual words of incantation,
used the word Jesus over a
man who was possessed of a
devil, and the man possessed
flew at them in s^reat fierce-
ness and nearly tore these
frauds to pieces, and in con-
sequence all up and down
the streets of Kphesus there
was indiq;nation excited
against the ma<;ical arts, and
a cifreat bonfire of niayical
books was kindled in the
streets, and the people stirred
the blaze until thirty-five
thousand dollars' worth of
black art literature was
burned to ashes.
But all the s^ory of
Eiphesus I have described has <i^one now. At some seasons of the year awful malarias
sweep over the place and put upon mattress or in j^raves a large portion of the population.
In the approximate marshes scorpions, centipedes and all forms of rejitilian life crawl
and hiss and sting, while hyenas and jackals at night slink in and out of the ruins of
buildings which once startled the nations with their almost supernatural grandeur.
But here is a lesson which has never yet been drawn out. Do you not .see in that
Temple of Diana an expression of what the world needs ? It wants a God who can provide
food. Diana was a huntress. In pictures on many of the coins she held a stag by a horn
with one hand and a bundle of arrows in the other. Oh, this is a hungry world ! Diana
could not give one pound of meat or one mouthful of food to the millions of her wor-
•shiiiers. She was a dead divinity, an imaginary God, and so in idolatrous lands the va^t
majority of people never have enough to eat. It is only in the countries where the God nt
heaven and earth is worshiped that the vast majority have enough to eat. Let Diana
have her arrows and her hounds ; our God has the sunshine and the showers and the
RUINS OF THE gvmnasu;m, EPHESrS.
THE WORLD AS SEEN TO-DAY.
367
liarvests, and in proportion as He is worshiped does plent\- reign. So also in the Temple of
Diana the world expressed its need of a refn^a^. To it from all parts of the land came
debtors who could not pay their debts and the offenders of the law, that lliev might escape
incarceration. But she sheltered them only a little while, and while she kept them from
arrest she could not change their hearts and the guilt^■ remained guilty. But our uod in
Jesnis C nst is a sure refuge into which we may fly from all our sins and all our pursuers,
and noi only be safe for time but safe for eternity, and the guilt is pardoned and the nature
IS transformed. What Diana could not do for her worshipers, our Christ accomplishes
tor us.
" Rock of a),es cleft for me.
Let me hide m>sulf in tliee."
Then, in that temple were deposited treasures from all the earth for safe keeping.
Chrysostom says it was the treasure-house of nations ; they brought gold and silver aud
AN'CIKNT CORINTH— RESTORED.
Coriiitl. was a magnificent city situated on the istlunus which connected Hellas with the Peloponnesus, and was defended hv
he strongest natural c.tadel ,n al, Europe. The city itself lay on .-, broad level rock nearlv .« feet above ihe isthnn.s and 1, ca.ul
leaK'ued with Greece 395 B C, It was >n Coriuth that St. Paul planted the first Chri»tiau church, to which he a<ldressed two epistLs
precious stones and coronets from across the sea, and put them under the care of Diana of
the Ephesiaus, But, again and again were those treasures ransacked, captured or destro\-ed,
Nero robbed them, the Scythians scattered them, the Goths burned them. Diana failed
those who trusted her with treasures, but our God, to Him we may entrust all our treasures
for this world and the next, and fail any one who puts confidence in Him He never will.
After the last jasper column has fallen and the last temple on earth has gone into ruins and
the world itself has suffered demolition, the Lord will keep for us our best treasures.
But, notice wha^. killed Hphesus, and what has killed most of the cities that lie buried
in the cemeteiy of nations. Luxury! The costly baths, wliich had been the means of
health to the city, became its ruin. Instead of the cold baths that had been the invigoration
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THE EARTH GIRDLED.
*' T'
of tlic people, tlic hut baths, which arc only iiitciulcd for tlic infirm or the invalid,
were substituted. In these liot baths many la>- most of the time. Authors wrote book>
while in these baths. liiisiness was neu^lected and a hot bath taken four or five tiniesadav.
When the keeper of the baths was reprimanded for not havinjj^ them warm euouj^h, one of
the rulers said : " Von blame him for not niakin<r the bath w
inn enou'di ; I blame \ c
)U
because you have it warm at all." Hut that warm bath, which enervated Hphesus and
which is alwa\s euervatin,<,r except when followed b>- cold baths (no reference, of course, t'.
delicate constitutions), was onl\- a type of what went on in all departments of Kphesian
life, and in luxurious indul<,rence iCphesus fell, and the last trian<>;le of music was tinkled in
Diana's Temple, and the last wrestler disappeared from her yynniasiums, and the last race!
took his jrarland in the Stadium, and the last plea was heard in her Forum, and, e\en tlu-
sea, as if to withdraw the last commercial opportunit from that metropolis, retreated down
the beach, leavinj^ her without the harbor in which had floated a thousand .ships. Hrooklvn,
New York, London and all modern cities, cis-Atlantic and trans-.\,lautic ! take warning.
What luxury un<;uarded did for ]%phesus luxury un<,niarded may d« for all. Opulence and
splendor Ood .^rant to all the jK-oplc, to all the cities, to all the lands, but at the same time,
may He tyrant the righteous use of them.
(iymnasiums? Yes, but see that the vi<,^or jijained in them be consecrated to God.
Maj,niificent temples of worshi]i? Yes, but see that in them instead of conventionalities
and cold pomp of service, there be warmth of devot )n and the pure Ciospel preached. Im-
posin<r court houses? Yes, but in them let ju.stice and merc\ itde. Palaces of journalism ?
Yes, but let all of the i>rintiu,<,r presses be marshaled for happiness and truth. Great post-
office buildin^ir.s? Yes, but throuj,di them day by day, may correspondence helpful, elevatiu-^
and moral pass. Ornate dwelHno-houses ? Yes, but in them let there be altars of dcvoticni,
and conjuo-al, filial, paternal and Christian fidelity rule. London for magnitude, Berlin for
universities, I'aris for fashions, Rome for cathedrals, Athens for classics, Thebes for hiem-
Rlyphics, Memphis for tombs, Babylon for <,rardens, Ephcsus for idolatry, but what shall be
the characteristics of our .\nierican cities when they shall have attained their full stature ?
Would that " Holiness to the Lord" mi^ht be inscribed upon all our municipalities. One
thincr is certain, and that is, that all idolatrv must come down. When the greatest iroddess
of the earth, Diana, enshrined in the g atest temple that ever stood, was prostrated at
Ephesus, it was a prophecy of the overthrow of all the idolatries that have cur.scd the earth,
and anything we love more than God is an idol, and there is as much idolatry in the nine-
teenth century as in the first, and in America as in A.sia.
As our train pulled out from the station at Hphesus, the cars surrounded by the worst
looking group of villains I ever gazed on, all of them seeming in a wrangle with each other
and trying to get into a wrangle with us, and we moved along the columns of ancient
aqueducts, each column crowned with storks, having built their nests there, and we rolled on
down toward vSmynia, and that night in a sailors' Bethel, we spoke of the Christ whom the
world must know or perish, we telt that between cradle and grave there could not be ain -
thing much more enthralling for body, mind and soul, than our visit to Ephesus.
CHAI'TKR XI,.
THE CROWN OF GREECE.
IT seenied as if morning- would never co„k.. W, had arrived after dark in Athens
C.reece, and the n.^du was sleepless with expectation, and n.v watch siowi;
annonnced to me one and two and three and four o'clock ; and at the fust •
of <lawn, I called o„r party to look out of the window upon that citv to which
aul saul he was a debtor, and to which the whole earth is debtor 'for (ireek rcl L^
(.reek scdpture, Cireek poetry, Greek eloquence, (Ircek prowess and Greek histor T t
morniUK^ ni Athens wcsauntered forth armed with most .a.ierous and love I L-
t.^ President of the United States and his Secretarv of St^^: :^; ' uH^^ H " ^ v h: ui';;
cjU^ those letters caused e^.ry door and everv ,ate and every teu.ple and ^ers^u^^^^l^^l
open before us. The m^nht.est <,eo,.raphical name on earth tcwlav is An.erici. The 2 Z
ure of an An.er.can President and Secretar>- of State will take a n,an where an an- nil
the (jucen of (,reece and her cordiality was more like that of a sister than the occn,.uu„f
the hand, an 1 earnest questions about our personal welfare aiul our beloved countrv far
away. Rut tins morning we pass throuoh where stood the A^cra, the ancient market-place
^^hc,e 1 aul the Chnstiau logician flung many a proud Stoic, and got the lau<di on manv nu
nnpertment Epicurean. The market-place was the centre of social and political 1 l" , d i
was the place where people went to tell and hear the news. Booths and bazaars were " p
^>r inercliandi.se of all kinds, except meat, but everything must be sold for cash, u.l h e
1 biiT -'"^ " "'"" °' commodities, and the Agoranomi who ruled the place
s o n1 ""7" ':"';'"""^-"^ "P"" °«"^'"^l'^'-^- 'n>e different schools of thinkers had
d stnct places se apart for convocation. The Platccans must meet at the cheese market the
e eliaus at the barber shop, the sellers of perfumes at the frankincense headquarters. T !
Ic tS T '""" ' "^""" "'''' ''"'"^''"^ ■'^'"' ^^'y y'^''^' '""^^ '-^"^ two hundred and fiftv
u dc and It wa.s given up to gossip and merchandise, and lounging, and philosophizin..'
All this you need to know in order to understand the Bible when it lavs of Paul, • Ther^*
ore disputed he in the market dailv with them that met him." You see it wa^ the best"
prcacl to. But before we make our chief visits we must take a turn at the Staclium. It
occurred. '"''' ^" '"' '""''• ^^'' ^'"'''"'" '''' '^'^ ^'^^'^ ''^''''' 'he foot-races
fi,„J''"\^''''^,''''",°"^ ^''''■'' "° ^°"''^' '■"'■ ^'^ freq"e"tly uses the .scenes of that place as
h,ure,s when he tells us, " Ut us run the race that is .set before us," and again, " Tliev do
to obtain a corruptible garland, but we an incorruptible." The marble and the <nldiiig
have been removed, but the high mounds against which the seats were piled are st-ll
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Till': EARTH GIRDLKD.
tlKiv. Tlu' Stadium is six liiuulrcd and (.ij;]!!) fcrt loiirr, one hundred and thirtv feet wide,
and lieid forty tiiousand speetalors. There is lo-ihiy liie ver\ tunnel throuj^h whicli the
dtleated racer leparted iVoni the Stadium and Irom tlie hisses of tiie people, and lliere are tin
slair> up whicli the \icliir wi-ul to tlie tup oi ihe hill to t)e ('ro\vne<l with the laurel, in
this ))lace contests with wild heasts sometime^ took place, an<l while Hadrian, the
emperor, sat on ponder heij^ht, one thousand l)ea--ts were slain in one celebration. l!ui
it was chiefTv- for foot-racinj;, and so I |)ro])osed to my friend that day while we were in
the Stadium that we try whicli of us could run the sooner from end to end of this hi-
torical jfrouud, and so at the word <;iven !)>■ the lookcrs-ou we started side bv side, but
before I j,n)t thronj^h I found out wiiat i'aul meant when he compart'S the spiritual race
I'AUI. EXHORTING IKLIX,
with the race in this very Stadium, as lie says, " Lay aside every wei<^ht." My lieacy over-
coat and my friend's freedom from such encnmbrance showed the advantage in any kind
of a race of lavin,^; aside "every \vei>^ht."
We come now to the Acropolis. It is a rock about two miles in circumference at tlie
base and a thousand feet in circuinference at the top, and three hundred feet hi.L;li, ( )ii it
has been crowded more elaborate architecture and scnli)ture than in anv other place inuKr
the w'liole heavens. Oriji^inally a fortress, afterward a conjjrejT;atiou of temples and statins
and pillars, their ruins an enchantment from which no observer ever l)rcaks awav. \o
wonder that Aristides tlionght it the centre ut all thing-.s — tireece, the centre uf the world ;
1 thirty feet wide,
i()iij;li wliicli the
, and there are thi
.Ii the laurel. In
lile Ilaih-iaii, thr
ct'lebratioii. llm
while we weri' in
) end of tiiis lii-
side by side, hiit
the spiritual race
My heavy ovu-
itage in any kind
niniference at the
feet hi.L;h. On it
other ])laee muKr
iiplcs and statins
ircaks away. Xo
itre of the world ;
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TIIK KARTH GIRDLKD.
U '1^
Attica, tlic centre of (ircecc ; Alliens, tlic centre of Attica, and tlie Acropolis, the centre of
Athens. IvutlKpiakes lia- e shaken it; Verres plinulered it. I«onl Ivlj^in, the iMi^^iisli
ambassador at Constantinople, j^ot permission of tlie Sidtan to remove from the Acropol:
fallen pieces of the buildinjj, bnt he took from the Iniildinj,' to Knj;!and the finest statues,
removiii),'' t'cm at an expense of ci^ht hnndred tlmns.ind dollars. A storm overthrew
many of the stati'.es of the Acropolis. Morosini, the ^jjeneral, attempted to remove from ,.
pediment the sculptured car and horses of Victov\ , bnt the clumsy machinery dropped it,
and all \va> lost. The Turks turned the buildinj,' into a powder nui<;;a/iue, where tin
Venetian jjuns dropped a fire that l)y explosion scut the columns flyinj^ in the air and
fallinjr cracked and splintered. Hut after all that time and storm and war and icono-
clasm have effected, the Acropolis is the monarch of all ruins, and bi-fore it bow the
learninj^, the j^eni-
us, the poetry, tin.
art, the history (j|
the a^jes. I saw it
as it was thou.sauds
of years ago. I had
read so much about
it and dreamed so
much about it, that
I needed no maj^i-
cian's wand to re-
store it. At one
wave of my hand
on that clear, brio;ht
morninjr it rose br-
fore me in the), nv
it had when Peri-
cles ordered it, and
Ictinus planned it,
and I'hidias chis-
eled it, and Protd-
genes painted it,
and Pausanias des-
cribed it. Its gates,
which were carefully guarded l)y the ancients, open to let you in, and you ascend by sixty
marble steps to the Propykca, which Kpaminondas wanted to transfer to Thebes, Init
permission, I am glad to say, could not be granted for the removal of this architectural
miracle. In the days when ten cents would do more than a dollar now, the building
cost two million three hundred thousand dollars. See its five on amented gates, the
keys entrusted to an officer for only one day le.st the temptation to go in and mi-
appropriate the treasures be too great for him ; its ceiling a mingling of blue and .scark t
and green, and the walls abloom with pictures utmost in thought and coloring. Voii(!i.r
is a a temple to a goddess called " Victory Without Wings." So many of the triumphs
of the world had been followed by defeat that the Greeks wished in marble to indicate
that victory for Athens had come never again to fly away, and hence this temple to
" Victory Without Wings," — a temple of marble, snow-white and glittering. Yonder behold
VMUV Ol- TMIv ACUOl'OLI.S, ATIIICNS.
THIv WORLD AS SKEN TO-DAV.
373
tho pclcstal .,f AKMippa, twc.Uy-sevu. feet luj-I, a.ul twelve feet square. Rut llu- over-
>!..ulown>K won.lerot all tl.e l.ill ,s the Parthe,,..,,. I„ .lays .l.en 'n..„ev wa t t s
more vainahie than „..vv, U cost f-mr .uilliou .six lu.n.lrea tl.ousa.ul dollar It •
)or.c^nancleur l,av,M;,M..>ty-.sixcoh,„„,s.eacl. colu,.,,. thirtv-f.mr feel Inuh a,ul six feet
wo nu.l.es ,n duuK-ter Wu.ulnms intercoh.n.uiations ! ,.ai,Ue,l ,,.,nieoes, arehit.a
tu.Kcl wuh ochre, slMel.ls at «ohl 1u.uk up. Hues cf „,..st delicate curve. f.,M res . 1 / .
a M.l meu and ...ueu aud «ods. ..xeu o„ the way to sacrif.ce. ^tatu s :f the 1 t e •
>...uysn,s. ProuKtheus. Henues, Denuter. Zeus. Hera, Posei.Iou ; iu o„e frie.e tw^e'
jmmfes; ceut uus u, battle; weapoury Iruu, Marathou ; chariot of ui^ht ; clLr U f
the uonuu,.; h.,rses of the suu. the fates, the furies; statue of Jupiter iiodiu- u h s
.yht haud the thuu.lerholt; silver-footed chair iu which Xerxes 'watched Z L ^
ol Salauns, ouly a lew luiles ..
Here is the colossal statue of .Mir,
erva iu full aruior, eyes jf s;ra\-
colorel stone; li-ure of ; S 'dix
on her head, yriirius by he. ,;,],>
(which are lious with cable's 1. ik)
sprar iu one hand, statue of Liberty
in tile other, a shield ear\ed witli
battle scenes, aud even the slip])ers
sculptured aud tied ou with tliou<,rs
of },rold. Far out at sea tiie sailors
saw this statue of Miuerva rising
]ii,i,di above all the temples, glitter-
injr iu the suu. Here are statues of
equestrians, statue of a liouess, aud
there are the (iraces, aud yonder a
horse iu bronze. There is a .statue
said iu the time of .\u<,Mistus to
have of its own accord tiirm-d
around froui east to west aud spit
lilood ; statues uiade out of shields
conquered iu battle; statue of
Apollo, the expeller of locusts ; >tatue of .\uacreon, dr.u.k aud siugiug ; statue of ( )lvu,nio-
<Io.ns a (keek, meu.orable for the fact that he was cl.eerful wheu oth -rs u"re cas ZT,
a h;.::;^ H ""^^r "" ^^-^"^ '"■ ^'"^^ ^-^^""'^ ^'- ^^--i-^-- -<i vcmd •: r: e
, : ! ■'''"'• '" '^''f''''' "^ ''^'"■"■"•^ fi^'^'^'".^^ ^'-^^ ^^•'-^^^"^- ->^1 the statue of
Hc.cules s aynio: serpents. No wouder that Petrouitrs said it was easier to find a J Inn
a man :n Athens. Oh. the Acropolis ! The nu>st of its temples and statues nuade fro n
lo k rtTeT tl ' '^";^''"""; "" '"'^^ '''' '"'■"'" '"^^ ^'■^>- ' ^'-'^ '-- "" -V table
a hlock o the I a,thenon made out of this marble, and on it is the sculpture of Phidias I
Sio,; r," I'Zf'T''^'- '^^- -^1--'- ^'-^ - it the dust of ai, and the .u ks o
"c Zh ' T^ '"' ■■°" f " ^'^' ^^""' '^ '^""'^ '^1- -f the delicate lustre of the
Acropohs when ,t was covered with a mountain of this marble cut into all the
ems,te shapes that genius could contrive, and striped with silver aud afl^n^e with
Solh^ '"^' 'I''" '"°™'"^' "S^^* "^ '^''''' '-^"^'^"^-^ '""«t have shone as
tliough ,t were an aerohte cast off from the noonday suu. The tcn.ples nuist have
PAiT, niscorRSFNc; with aoiu.a ami i'riscii.i.a.
374
THE EARTH GIRDLP:d.
looked like petrified foam. The whole Acropolis inust have seemed like tlie whiti
breakers of the j^reat ocean of time.
Hut we cannot stop lon<^er here, for there is a hill near-by of more interest, though it
has not one chip of niarl)le to sti<;trest a statue or a temple. We hasten down the Aeropoli>
to ascend the Areopajjus, or Mars Hill, as it is called. It took only about three minutes [<<
walk the distance, and the two hill-tops are so near that what I said in religious discourse
on Mars Hill was heard distinctly by some Knglish gentlemen on the Acropolis. This
Mars Hill is a rough pile of rock fifty feet high. It was famous long before New Testa-
ment times. The Persians easily and terribly a.s.saulted the Acropolis from this hill tdp.
Here assembled the court to try criminals. It was held in the night time, so that the faces
of the judges could not be seen, nor the faces of the lawyers who made the plea, and sd,
instead of a trial being one of emotion, it must have been one of cool justice. Hut tlierc-
was (me occasion on this hill memorable above all others. .\ little man, phvsicallv weak,
and his rhetoric, described by himself as contemptible, had by his sermons rocked Atlieii-
with commotion, and he was summoned cither by writ of law or hearty invitation to come
upon that pulpit of rock and give a specimen of his theology. All the wiseacres of .\tlu n-.
turned out and turned up to hear him. The more venerable of them sat in an amphi-
theatre, the granite seats of which are still visible, l)Ut the other jieople swarmed on ali
.sides of the hill and at the base of it to hear this man, whom some called a fanatic, and
others called a madcap, and others a blasphemer, and others .styled contemptuouslv " tin-
fellow." In that audience were tlie first orators of the world, and they had voices likr
flutes when they were passive and like trumpets when they were arou.sed, and I think lhr\
laughed in the sleeves of their gowns as this insignificant-looking man rose to speak, hi
that audience were Scholiasts, who knew everything, or thought they did, and from the eiui
of the longest hair on the top of their craniums to the end of the nail on the longest Idi,
they were stuffed with hypercriticism, and they leaned back with a supercilious look tn
listen. .Vs that day I stood on that rock where Paul stood, and a slab of which I brought
from Athens by consent of the Ouecn, through ]\Ir. Tricoujns, the inime minister, and had
placed in the memorial wall of the P.rooklyn Tabernacle, I read the whole story, Hible in hand.
What I have so far said, was neces.sary in order that you ma\- understand the boldiu--.
tlie defiance, the holv recklessness, the magnificence of Paul's si)eech. The first thundvi-
bolt he launched at the opposite hill — the Acropolis — that nu)ment all aglitter with idols ard
tenii)les. He cries out, "(iod who made the woidd." Wh\-, they thought that Pronietht.:;-
made it, that Alercury made it, that Ajiollo nuule it, that Poseidon made il, that luos nuide it,
that Pandrocus made it, that P.oreas made il that it took all the gods of the Parthenon, Ma,
all the gods and goddesses of the .Xcrojjolis to make it, and here stands a man without am
ecclesiastical title, neither a I). I)., nor even a revereiul, declaring that the world was madi
by the I.ord of heaven and earth, and hence the inference that all the si)lendi(l covering nf
the .\cropolis, so near that the jieople standing on the steps of the Parthenon could hear it,
was a deceit, a falsehood, a sham, a blasphemy. ( )h, Paul, stop for a moment and gi\e
these startled and overwi.cdmed auditors time to catch their breath I Make a rhetorical
])ause I Take a look around you at the interesting landscape, and give >our hearers time
to recover! Xo, he does 'lot make even a period, or so much as a colon or .semi-colon, Imt
launches the .second thunderbolt right after the first, and in the same breath goes on to sa\,
"(k)d dwelleth not in temples made with hands." Oh, Paid! is not deity more in ilu-
Parthenon, or more in the Thescam, or more in the Krechtheiim, or more in the Teiiii'c
of Zeus Olympius tl;:in in the open air, more than on the hill where we are sitting, more
d like the vvliiti
interest, thonoli i'
i)\vn the AcrojKili,
L tlirce minutes i^.
relijjjious disconist
Aevopolis. Tlii-
before New Test;i-
roiii tliis liill toj.
', so that tile laci.--
' the plea, and scj,
iistice. Hut their
, physically weak,
ins rocked Atlieiw
n\'itation to coim-
iseacres of Athin-.
sat in an aniplii-
le swarmed on all
lied a fanatic, and
emptuousl>- " llii^
cy had \-oices likt
and I think iIha
ose to speak, hi
and from the end
)n the loui^est U<v.
pereilious look Ui
which I hrouj^hi
minister, and had
iry, liihie in hand.
:and the boldiie^-.
The first thun;l'.v-
tter with idols and
. that Proinetlk;;--.
that ICros made it,
le Parthenon, \(.a,
man without am
e world was niadi.
jiidid co\-erin.L^ cf
lion could hear it,
nonient and .L;i\e
Make a rhetorical
•our hearers lime
DT scmi-coh)ii, l>iit
th j^oes on to sa\,
deity more in the
ire ill the Teiii]'k-
'. are sitting, nmre
'■i\r;:' ).''';"?i!:ii'i.,!"';'iT~?'iinn™'
376
THE EARTH GIRDLED.
rr
tlian on Mount Hynicttus out yonder, from wliicli the- Ijecs <,^et tlicir lioney. " No more ! "
responds Paul ; " Me dwelletli not in temples made with liauds."
But snreh- the preacher on the pulpit of rock on Mars Hill will stop now. His audi
cnce can endure no more. Two tliundcrlK)lts are enouj^Ii. X<i, in the same breath Ik
launches the third thunderbolt, which, to them, is more fiery, more terrible, move deuKjl-
ishin,(,r than the others, as he cries out, " Hath made of one blood all nations." Oh, Paul '.
you forget yon are speaking to the proudest and most exclusive audience in the world. Dn
not say " of one blood." You cannot mean that. Had Socrates, and Plato, and Demos-
thenes, and Solon, and Lycurgus, and Draco, and Sophocles, and Euripides, and .-lisclnlu^,
and Pericles, and Phidias, and Miltiadcs, bloc;l just like the Persians, like the Turks, lik.
IWCAniC OI' THI-; I'AKTHICNON, r.RIU'.CIC.
Tlic I'arlliuiioM was a marlilc temple in Atluiis, (lecliciiteil to Minerva, C.odiless of Wisdom, erected about ,),so II, ('., ami i.
lielievtd to llave surpassed all oilier eilifiees ever ert.-teil liy tile hand of man. fp.iu tin- frieze was a seulpliired represeiuatio'ii ol l!i.
sacred iirocession wliieli took place every fiftli vear in Ath-ns in honor of Minerva, which w.i> so splendidly executed as to con-limu
the building's chief glory.
the Egyptians, like the common herd of humanity? " Yes," .says Paul, "of one blood, all
nations."
Surely that nnist l)e the closing paragraph of the sermon. His auditors must be kt
up from the nervous .strain. Paul has smashed the .\cropolis and smashed the natiom:
pride of the Greeks, and what more can he .say ? Those Criecian orators, standing on tli.it
place, always closed their addresses with something sublime and climacteric, a peroratim;,
and Paul is going to give them a peroration which will eclip.se in power and majestx ail
that he has yet .said. Heretofore he has hurled one thunderbolt at a time; now. he wi!
close by hurling two at once — the two tluuukrbolts of Resurrection and Last Jud.gnRiit.
His closing words were: "lJecau.se He hath appointed a dav, in the which He will jud-c
THK WORLD AS SPvKX TO-DAY.
377
of one Ijlood,
t:^ :::f:;;rr;r-;T,,:;;r :.:''::;■ r^;-'^ "■"-•- = --•-• - -^- .v..
thouolus were- to ti,e,„ novel and >,- n uK- ,"r ""' ' "' ''""'•" '^^--"'-- thos.
con,e to he their j„,„e, and thev s M ' ',^^^^7'^!^ ''r'''""' ""^''^''^^'^^ -'"''l
before Him and take their etern d ,1, „ \r li' ',* ""' " '^'''' '^^^^^^'^'^^^ to stand
i.-rd. At those two thon.hts o e n^ tion ' If '""' 1 ^'-"^--O- P-ver .ver
k-et. Son>e n.oved they a<Uonrn to ^. " ^ "^ /^ "'f ^■"'- ^"^ -'<••-- ^P-'^' to their
others wo„ld have torn the saered orat r to ni e '.',"'' ''T "" '^'' '''''"^' ^''-"^■- '"'t
suppose it means that t],ev n,inueS he i' > ^ ''J' '--nl says, "son.e n,ocl<ed.- I
^.passioned ..tiealation, and t,::":!' 1' ' >^ ^^^ ;:^v 'V^r'' ^^ ''"' T' "" "^^
^ on on,<,d,t to hear our orators speak ' V„„ ,,,,1 I , ,' ^ ' , '' ''"' """ ■'^"'•''>- '''^torie ?
"fi"^. Our Lyc„,,„s knew 'nou.' i,' , j ,i" ::.:" '"^^/r ''"'' '""'"^^^ "^ ^^"'■
wliere did you <^,i , '[ ' "''"' ''•"■ ^^■'" I<""vv in a niontli. Say,
tiiat crooked baek
and those weak e\es
from ? Ha ! lia !
Von try to teacli ns
(irecians! What non-
sense you talk aljout
wlien \ou speak of
Resurrection a n d
Jud<rment. Now,
httle old man, climb
down the side of
-Mars Hill and j-et
out of sight as soon
as possible." " Some
mocked." But that
scene adjourned to
the day of which the
.sacred orator had
•spoken— the da_\- of
Resurrection and
Judgment.
As in Athens,
am d.Mv of tl„. past" J,, Z ,^ »» I""- m s„l,,„ne and a„f„I conv.Tsc. "l
''-^ Hi,,. T„c Ai;'*™;l,fl\,, '::;;; „:,•;;;■ ^''ifv "^t„e f,.t„t.,' ,o,„i„,
P'^ts are dead. Mv architects are de',d \T '"\"''*'' -^^> '^i^^-f^uers are dead. My
»'" tl.e dead past. ' I slu 1 ever a i I ' '''''"''' "'' ^^''^'- ' ^■" ''^ ■""""■"en't
cnhunn lifted I slnllne l j^'";^- ''^«'- f -"^ong sung, I shall never again see a
ueu. J •''"an ne\er again behold a goddess crowned " \r.,,- tjmi ^^'i " •s'-e a
too, have liad a hi.story. I had on mv heiohts warrLrs w o till responded . " I,
--rd, and judges who will never a-ain utter ^ , ''■''' '^^''" '"'-^''^-^'^"^
."- a p,ea. „„t ,„, M,.„ee Vt;^:". r ■ ,r ;i:-^;t:;f r™ :;::!!! -r^;:
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378
THE EARTH GIRDLED.
Oil, Acropolis ! I have stood liere loiit> enough to witness that your gods are no gods at all.
Your Boreas could not control the winds. Your Nepttine coijld not manage the sea. Yotir
Apollo never evoked a musical note. Your goddess Ceres never grew a harvest. Your
goddess of wisdom, Minerva, never knew the Greek alphabet. Your Jupiter could not
handle the lightnings. But the God whom I proclaimed on the day when Paul preached
before the astounded assemblage on my rough heights, is the God of nmsic, the God of
wisdom, the (iod of power, the God of mercy, the God of love, the God of storms, the God
of sunshine, the God of the land and the (iod of the sea, the God over all, blessed forever."
Then, the Acropolis spake and said, as though in self-defence : " My Plato argued for tin.-
immortality of the soul, and my Socrates praised virtue, and my Miltiades at Marathon
drove back the Persian oppressors." "Yes," .said IMars Hill, "your Plato laboriousl\
guessed at the immortality of the soul, but my Paul, divinely inspired, declared it as a fad
straight from God. Your Socrates praised virtue, but expired as a suicide. Your Miltiadts
was brave against earthh
foes, yet died from a wound
ignominiou.sly gotten in
after-defeat. But my Paul
challenged all earth and all
hell with this battle-shout,
' We wrestle not against
flesh and blood, but against
principalities, against
powers, against the rulers of
♦^he darkness of this world,
agaii ^ spiritual wickedness
in h .1. places,' and then,
on tl . cwenty-ninth of June,
in the year 66, on the road
to Ostia, after the sword
of the headsman had given
one keen stroke, took the
crown of martyrdom."
After a moment's silence
by both hills, tlie Acropolis moaned out in the darkness, "Alas! Alas!" and INIars Hill
responded, " Hosannah ! Hosannah ! " Then th.e voices of both hills became indistinct,
and as I passed on and away in the twilight, I .-.eemed to hear only two sounds — a fragment
of Pentelicon marble from the architrave of the Acropolis dropping down on the ruins of a
shattered idol, and the other sound seemed to come from the rock on Mars Hill, from which
we had just descended. But we were by this time so far ofi"that the fragniei-^s of .sentences
were smaller when dropping from Mars Hill than w-ere the fragments ''■ icn marble on
the .\cropolis, and I could only hear parts of disconnected sentences w tte,' r . the night air
— "God who made the world" — "of one blood all nations" — "appo'ntfd a uay in which
He will judge the world " — "raised Him from the dead."
As that night in Athens I put my tired head on my pillow, and the exciting scents
of the day passed through my mind, I thought on the same subject on which as
a boy I made my commencement speech in Niblo's Theatre on graduation day frc'.n
the New York University, viz : " The moral effects of sculpture and architecture," but
TUFiATRE OF liACCUrS, SICATS OF THi; Jl'IlC.FS, atiii-;ns.
re no gods at all.
;e the sea. Your
harvest. Your
ipiter could not
-■n Paul preaclicd
usic, the God of
storms, the God
blessed forever."
;o argued for tin.'
:les at Marathon
'lato laborioush
rlared it as a fact
Your Miltiadcs
against earthly
:d from a wound
sly gotten in
But my Paul
all earth and all
his battle-shout,
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Zni^^^tfC T''-'^?'' ''^'"^^'^' '''''' '''''' ^'-- the'opportunitv'amd he
nm " The •'^'^'^V r^;":'^ '""' '''^''' ''"'' '^'' ^''''''' "--••"" «<■ all his life. He
Al> last walk out on the road to Ostia." But I think- I1,. ^ni c u mm , "^ '"''> •''^>.
Mars Hil, .,*o,,„„ .„, ,„<„,„.,,„ A.^pa^-l^/^'ritk'' J , ] U^ZjS.^X: ^
inst tlie rulers of
;s of this world,
itual wickedness
aces,' and then,
ty-ninth of June,
66, on the road
ifter the sword
Isnian had given
stroke, took the
artyrdom."
noment's silence
" and IMars Hill
icame indistinct,
nds — a fragment
an tlie ruins of a
Hill, from which
left's of sentences
'- len marble on
f , the night air
a uay in which
2 exciting scenes
ct on which as
nation day fniin
-chitecture," but
Kit
', ;i
CHAl'THR XIJ.
POMPEII.
FLASH on the ni<j;lit sky trrcct. i' us as v. >. 'eppcd oiu of the rail train ai
Xaples, Italv. What was the strange inuininatioii ? It was 'hat wrath m
many centuries — \'esuvius. Ciiaut son of an ■.artli. 'lake. Intoxicati-d iiionu-
taiii of Italy. Father of many con•':eruation^^ .V voktno, burning so luu^;,
and yet to k- ep on burning until, p.vhaps, it may be the very to-ch tiuiL will kind'e the last
conflagration and sot all the world on fire. It eclipses in violence of behavior Colopaxi an>l
.F^tna and Stromboli an<^ K'.akaioa. Awful mystery. Fiuieral pyre of dead cities. Kvei-
lasting paroxysm of nujiia!. thr- It seem.-; like a chimney of hell. It roars with fier\
reminiscence of what it lia.s 'iorc, ami with threats of worse things that it mav vet do. !
would not live in one of the \jl!,i>4es a\ its base for a present of a!i Italv. On a dav in
DecembiT, 1631, it threw up ,;slies thai lloatcd away hundreds and hundreds of miles, and
dropped in Constantinople and in the Adriatic Sea and on th.e Aiaenunies, as well as traniji-
ling out at its own foot the lives of eighteen thousand people. (;> v iogists have tried u>
fathom its mvsteries, but the heat consumed the iron instruments and drove back tin.
scorched and blistered explorers from the cindery and crumbling brink. It seems like tlu
a^' ■lum of maniac elements. At one time far back its top had been a foi tress, where Spar-
tacus fotight and was surrounded, and would have been destroved had it not been for iIk-
grape vines which clothed the mountain side from top to base, and laying hold of them Ik-
climbed iiand under hand to safety in the valley. But for centuries it has kept its furnace
burning as we saw it that night on our arrival.
Of cour.'c the next day we started to .see .some of the work wrought by that frenzied
mountain. " All out for Pompeii ! " was the cry of the conductor. And now we stand liv
the corpse of that dead city. As we entered the gate and passed between the walls, I tonk
off my hat, as one naturally does in the presence of .some imposing obsecpiie.s. That eilv
had been at one time a capital of beauty and jiomp, the home of grand architecture, ex(|iii-
site painting, enchanting .sculpture, unrestrained carousal, and ra])t assemblage. A hi-h
wall, twenty feet thick, three-fourths of it still visible, encircled the city. On those walls at
a distance of onl\- one hundred \ards from each other, towers rose for armed men who
watched the city. The .streets ran at right angles and from wall to wall, only om. Uwi
excepted. In the days of the city's prosperity, its towers glittered in the .sun ; eight strong
gates for ingress and egress ; ( late of the Sea Shore, Oate of Herculaneum, (iate of \\mi-
vius being perhaps the most iin])ortant. Yonder was the Temple of ^uniter, hoisted at an
imposing elevation, and with its six Corinthian colunms of immense ' wdiicli stood like
carved iceberg.s, shimmering in the light. There stands the Tempi'.'', i .e Twelve (ioils.
Yonder .see the Temple of Hercui':':-, and the Temple of Mercui . , v.i. altars of marble and
ba.s-relief, wonderful enough to -^tiund all succeeding ages ol ai-t, and the Temple nf
^Esculapius, brilliant with sculpture and gorgeous with paintiuj^. '"onder are the thealrts,
partly cut into surrounding hills and glorified with pictured wall ■> ;; catered under arclics
of imposing masonry, and with roouis for captivated and applauuatoiy audiences, seated or
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THR WORLD AS SKEX TO-DAY.
tlie rail train ai
as 'liat wralli <<:
ntoxicatcd iiuuiii-
Dutr.iiio; so loili^,
nil kiiul'e the ;;!>i
vior Cotopaxi and
cad cities. Kvei-
It roars with fi(.r\
t may yet do. '
ly. On a day in
eds of miles, and
as well as tr:mi|i-
ists have tried tn
d drove back tin-
It seems like llu-
tress, where S));ii-
not been tor llu-
[ hold of them Ik-
■; kept its fnruai\-
by that fren/.ii.d
now we stand liv
the walls, I took
quics. That eilv
■chitecture, excjni-
■nibla.^e. A liii^li
On those walls at
armed men who
11, only on(. ■trci.-t
snn ; ei<rlit .slrono-
ni, (iate of \'e>u-
liter, hoisted at an
which stood like
ic Twelve (iods.
ars of niarl)le and
:1 the Temple (.f
r are the theatn-s,
ered under arclics
;diences, seated or
38 1
standin<,r, in vast semi-circle. Yonder •,n^ fl„> n„-.i i-
with n,ore than the n,odern in«. ^ "f C ,-Mnd "y 7"T '""" '"^'" "'" ^''^ '^'^^■'
tepi<larinms with liovenn<. radi" nc > n^f i ., '' "'' ''"'"'^'' "'" "'"^^' =^"^^i^'"t
decorated alcoves and the coll l-s of li f ' "l" ' "'''"' "'" ^''""' -'<1--- -ith
'•r all skillfnllv internnn^lcd 1, es " ] '^^'•f 7'"">S ^vUh floors of nu.saic, an.! ceilings
snn, and sof^.s on wh eh ^ 'c ^^^ ,nn ''f'^^ ^^^ '^" ^''e colors of the sett i,;^
of the celebrated .^ladiato s V > ,d ' is ' ' " '''""^"- '''''''^'' ''''^ ^'•^' '-""--ks
-ul senator, the architect .^ as t -1 "' r"T '"""' "" ""'''''''' ''''' ^^-•-" ''••^^--=-
'Knee of the p„et Pansa wi - t^ ! , '^ "■; '^'^^'^'^^ ^^^^ ^orrnpt. There is the resi-
' ^" ' '""'t^'^"-^^'^' ^'""^•re and Lnxembouro witlii,, his walls
ERfPTlON OK VKSrviUS
tri.nnphal arches. It is bounce ^i tl ee id 1 'n"" f'' "'• " '' '' "^^^^"^ b>- '^^
or the city, is the hon.e of VrtrD o2d tT ' T^T"'- ''""'^'■' '" ^'"^ •'^"^-'■•'^
of billion^iredon,, <.ardens fou t „« t tn ' T'" 1 ,"", ""'"'"' '''''''''' '--'''-'^^^
with bottles of rarest w ne aZdron; oh', "'"""r'"'', '^." '''''' "^ ''''' ^-^''^^ ''""^
ward. Alon.. the streets of tlecif' ' "'"'' ^"'''''^ '''^^'''''' ^"""1^"' ^ears alter-
'..•..n.e that man^ :r •:f h^ o ,j;::r to ^^ .l^ P.^ ''"''''''' "^ 'T'' ^"""-^ '^^^
all time cannot efface Great citv of P . ^f^le scenes on walls in colors which
pronounced it. ' ^ "'"''""• So Seneca and Tacitus and Cicero
Stand with me on its walls this eveninsr of .\u.r„st 2? \ D -n ^ h ,
Pa-s.sn..o: up and down in Tvrian purple and o-i^lc of"; 1 1 '\ ^''"^ ""'""-'
p.;ec.ous stones, proud official i J inlj^lj ^^^^^ ,: , f Z^^:' ' ^-l'^"-' -th
W.U. .oblets and a-smoke w.th delicacies ^o..^^^^Z:Z Z^^!^ ^^ !-t::;
|.f
3S2
THE EARTH GIRDLED.
tilt-' (lc<,^ra(latiQii of tlic times passes the profligate doinj,^ his best to make them worse. Haik
to the elattcr and rataplan of tlu' hoofs on the streets i)ave(l with blocks of basalt. See tin
verdnred and flowered ^nounds sloping:; into one of the most bcantifnl bays of all the earth —
tlie Hay of Naples. Listen to the rumblin.i; chariots, carrying,' convivial occupants to halls (.!
mirtli and mascpierade and carousal. Hear the loud dash of fountains amid the sculpUi'e.!
water nvmphs. Notice tlie weird, solemn, far-reach in},' hum and din and roar of a city ai
the close of a sunuuer dav. Let Pompeii sleep well to-ni<;ht, for it is the last ni<,dit o!
peaceful slumber before she falls into the deep shnnber of many lon<,r centuries. Tlu-
morninj; of the twenty-fourth of An<;usl, A. I). 79, has arrived, and the day rolls on, and it i-
one o'clock in the afternoon ;
" Look ! " I say to yon, stand-
in,^ on this wall, as the sister ol
I'liuy said to him, the Roman
essayist and naval commandiv,
on the day of which I writi.', a-
she pointed him in tlu' direclion
in which I point you. There i>
a jieculiar cloud on the sky ; a
s])otted cloud, now white, now
black. It is \'esuvius in awl'iil
and unparalleled erni)tion. Now
the smoke and fire and steam u\
that black monster throat ii>i.'
and spread. It rises, a yri-a
colunni of fier\' darkness, hi.!:;lRr
and higher, and then spreads
out like the branches of a Uw.
with midnights iuterwrapixd in
its folia<j^c, wider and wickr.
Now the sun j>oes out and
showers of pumice stone and
water from furnaces more tlian
seven times heated, and asliis
in avalanche after avalanclu\
blindin<; and scaldin<^' and suf-
focating, descend. North, South,
East and West, bnryin<j deeiK-r
and deeper in mammoth sepul-
chre, such as never before or since was opened. Stabile, Herculaueuni, and Pompeii. Aslus
ankle deep, jrirdle deep, chin deep, ashes overhead. Out of tlie houses and temples and
theatres, and into the streets and down to the beach fled many of the frantic, but others, if imt
sufTocated of the ashes, were scalded to death l)y the heated delujjje. And then came hea\ icr
destruction in rocks after rocks, crnshiny; in homes and temples and theatres. No wonder
the sea receded from the beach as thou<>;h in terror, until much of the shipping was wreckid,
and no wonder that, when they lifted Pliny the elder from the sail cloth on which he was
resting, under the agitations of what he had seen, he suddenly expired. For three days tlie
entombment proceeded. Then the clouds lifted and the cursing of that Apollyon ot
STKIOCT OK TIIK TOMIIS, POMPKII.
THE WORLD AS SEEN TO-DAY.
3^3
CAST OV A HI-MAN lionv VOVSn IN THK RflNS OF POMPHII.
^as found clutclnng. heradonnnents w],en the storn, of aslusand fire beoan and for s.vcn
c.n hundred years .sl:e continued to clutcl, then,. There at the soldiers'Cn ks e i xt v"
f .ur skeletons of brave „,en, who faithfullv stood <M,anl at their post whe e e ,nest f'
nulers began, a.d after seventeen l„,ndred ^■ears were still found standi I 'na ' TlJ e
s t e forna ,; ,, ntle won.anhood iu.pre.ssed upon the hardened ashes. Pa^s^l and
Vfirst t t:,^."';;:;'" ba.saltie paven.nts worn there by the wheels of the cT^riots^.T
n< dlf . ''"!;7^^''^^> "^ ^ ^'^y^ which, notwithstanding all its splendors, was a vestib.Ue of
P r t,on. n.ose gutters ran with the blood of the gladiators, who we e the prte-fi hters
of those anc-.ent tunes, and it was s.vord parrying sword, until, with one ski If 1 id to"
Ill
u>
384
THH KARTII (HRDLKD.
plnujje of the sharp vl'^v, the uianlcl m' v isluil coml)atant reeled over dead, to he carried
out amid tiichu/zas of enraptured .<pe J.alur. . U'e staid aiiioiij^ tliose sn},fj4estive scenes after
the hour tliat visitors are usuall\ allovi! t'ere, and staid until there was not a foot fall In
he heard within all that city, except our own. I'p this silent street and down that silent
street wc w.indercd. Into t!' .1 windowlcss and roofless home we went and came out L\^n\n
on to the ])avenienls that, now forsaken, were once ihronoed with life.
And can it l)e that all up and down these solemn solitude-^, hearts, more than ei^hlem
h\iudn.d \ears ajjo, ached and rejoiced, and feet shun >' .' '' the j;ait of old ajjc or danced
with childish ^lee, and overtasked workmen can.ed tiieir burdens, cUid drunkards sta^.i^cred :"
On that mosaic floor did <4lowin,iLi youth clasp hands in niania^e vow, and acro>s that thres-
hold did pall-hearers carry the beloved dead, and jjay groups once mount those now skele-
tons of staircases ? While I walked and contemplated, the city seemed suddenly to 1)c
thronged with all tie population that had ever inhabited it, and I heard its laughter and
groan and blasphemy and uncleanness and infi rnal boast, as it was on the twenty-third of
August, 79. And Wsnvius, from the mild light with which it flushed the sky that summer
evening as I st<n)d in disentombed Pompeii, seemed suddenly again to heave and flame and
rock with the lava and darkness and desolation and woe, with which, more than eighteen
centuries ago, it submerged Pompeii.
While walking through uncovered Pompeii I am absorbed with the thought that, while
art and culture are important, they cannot save '.le morals or the life of a great town.
Much of the jjainting and seul]>lure of Pompeii was so c.xqni.site that, while -^ome is kept
on the walls where it was first penciled, to be admired by tho.se who go there, wliole wagon
loads and wdiole rooms full of it have been transferred to the Mnseo Ilorbonico at Naples,
to be admired by the centuries. Tho.sc Pompeiian artists mixed such durability of colors
that though their paintings were buried in ashes and scoriic for seventeen hundred \ears,
and since they were uncovered many of them have remained then- exposed to the rains and
winds and winters and summers of a hundred .)nd thirty year.s, the color is as fresli and vivid
and true as though yesterda\ it had pa.ssed from the easel. \V'hich of our modern paintings
could stand all that? And yet many of the specii ens of Pompeiian art show that the citv
was sunk to such a depth of abeii 'itatio that tlu was iiolliing deeper. Sculptured and
petrified and endxdmed abomination. Therewasastateofpublicnioralswor.se than 1h longs
to any city now standing under the sun. Yet, how many think that all that is necessarv is
to cultivate the mind and advance '.iie knowledge, and impro\ ■ the arts. Have yon the
impression that eloquence will do the elevating woik ? Why, Pompeii had Cicero half
of every year for its citizen. Have yon the idea that literature is all that is neces.sary to
keep a city right? Why, vSalln.st, with a pen that \v;. the boast of Roman literature, had
a mansion in that doomed citv. Do you thini 'lat sr Ipture and art arequili' suflfici ■nt for
the production of good morals? Then, corrc ni lusion b\' exa: iiing the statues in
the Temple of Mercuy at Pompeii, or the wi d res of its Parthenon, and the colon-
nades and arches of this house of Dionied. P)y all means have schools -tud Dusseldorf and
Dore exhii'itions, and galleries wdiere the genius of all the centuries can batik itself up in
snowy sculpture, and all bric-a-brac, and all pure art, but nothing, save the religion of Jesiis
Christ, can make a city moral. In proportion as churches and Bibles and Christian print-
ing pres.ses and revivals of religion abound is a city clean and pure. What has Buddhi-ni
or Confucianism or IMohammedanism, done in all the hundreds of years of their progress
for the elevation of society ? Absolutely nothing. Pekin and Madras and Cairo are just
•what they were ages ago, except as Christianity has modified their condition. What is the
THK WORLD AS SKKX TO-D \V
•'5
.liffiTfiicc iKtwcon our Ilrooklvii and llKir l'oiiini.ii > v iir
sik'ii in maiiv cases tliat God is aiurrv u-i.l, , ;, i /n ^.^'""^ ;"'<' Hk' c])ulunic art- no
aiM>lvtoCl„-stia, c Is^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ "^ ''-^^ ''-^ •M'plies to individuals „,av
'-'1-" Hut ll.e ,a.aLi Z^^L ../'"J'""-'^ ^-'''^ '"«''^'-- ''"• .^-> t.> -l.nse tl.at love
history came U])oii Pompeii not to
improve its Inture condition, for ii
was completely obliterated and will
never be rebnilt. It was so ba'l 'liat
it needed to be buried seventeen
liiindred years before even its ruins
were fit to be uncovered. So Sodom
and (loniorrab were filled with such
turpitude- that they were not only
tm-ued mider, but have for thousands
'>( years been kept under. The two
-reatest cemeteries are the cemetery
111 which the sunken ships are buried
all the way between Fire Island and
' •^tnet I.ij>;]it Hon.se, and the other
mcterv is the cemetery of dead
cities. ;vet down on my knees and
read ti pitapheolo^n- of a lonj,'
line of tiiem : Here lies Babylon,
once called "The hammer of' the
whole earth." Dead and buried
under piles of bitumen and broken
pottery and vitrified brick. And I
hear a wolf howl and a reptile hiss
as I read this epitaph : I.sa. xiii : 21,
" The wild beast of the desert shall crati.k oi- vicsivns.
be there and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures." The next tomb I L-„ 1
We ,n this centetery of cities is Nineveh. Her winded lions ::rdo a d h
1 o alabaster have crumbled, and the .sculpture that represented her battles is !
>^^ the dust of her Sardanapalus as I sto. p to read her epitaph: Zepha nah ii m
W .s N.ueveh a desolation and drv like a wilderness; ind flocks He dow „ 1^
Kit of her: al the bea.sts of the nation.s, both the connorant and tlie bittern lode
>" the upper Imtels of u. And while I read it I hear an owl hoot, and a hvena lau'h
,.a ,...n red granite anu it is Tyre. The next sepulchre of a ^reat capital is covered
-th scattered columns, and defaced sphinxes, and' the .sands o? ut Zert id it
25
3S6
THIC KARTH ClIRDLKD.
Tlichc'S. As I jiass an I fiuil the rtstiiijj; placi- of Mxceiuu, a city of wliifli lloiner saiii:.
ami Coriiitli wliich rejected Paul, ami I'rpciuk'd upon licr Ibrtrcss Acrocorintlius, whii ..
now lies dismantled on the hill, and I move on in this eemetery of cities, and I fui-l
tlie tombs of »Sardis and .Smyrna, and Perscpolis, and Mcnipiiis, and IJa.dhek, and Carthat;!,
and here , -ire tlic Cities of tlic PI 1 u, and Ilcrculanenm and Stabia, and Pomjicii. Soup
of them ha\e mi^dity sarcoi)haj;iis, and hien)|j;lyphic entablature, but tliey are dead, ami
bin-ied never to rise.
Ihit the cinietcry of dead cities is not vet filled, and if the in-esent cities of the world
forfjetCiod, and with their indeeeneies shock the heavens, let them know that the God, wiiu,
on the twenty-fourth of Auj^u^'i,
79, drop|)ed on a city of Italy a
superincuml)ranee that staid
tlicrc seventeen centuries, is still
alive and hates sin now as nuiLU
as He did then and has at liis
command all tlie armament ot
destruction with which lie
whelmed their iniquitous pre-
decessors. It was only a few
sunnners a<;-o that Brooklyn and
New York felt an earthquake
throb that sent the people
affrighted into the streets, and
that suggested that there are
forces of iiature now suppressed,
or held in check, which, easier
than a child in a nursery knocks
down a row of block houses,
cotdd prostrate a city, or engulph
a continent deeper than Pomptii
was engul plied. Our hope is in
the mercy of the I^ord continued
to our American cities.
Warned by the doom of
other cities that have perished
for their Ruffianism, or their
cruelty, or their Idolatry or tluir
Dissoluteness, let all our American cities lead the right way. Our only dependence
is on Ood and Christian influences. Politics will do nothing but make things worse.
Send polities to moralize and save a city and you send small-pox to heal lepros) , or
a carcass to relieve the air of malodor. American politics will become a reformatory power
on the same day that pandemonium becomes a church. P)Ut there are I am glad to say benit:;n,
and salutary and gracious influences organized in all our cities wdiieh will yet take them for
God and righteousness. Let ns ply the Gospel machiner to its utmost speed and ]i<>\vLr.
Ci evangelization is the thought. Accustomed as are k ngious pessimists to dwell upon
.statistics of evil and dolorous facts, we want some one with snnctifipd lieart and g".icl
digestion to put in long line the .statistics of natures transformed, and profligacies balked.
iNTi:i;ioR (pi- Titi; MrsKiM, tompi-.h.
vliidi IIf)iiu'r sail',:.
Lrocoiiullius, wlui >
f cities, and I fni<l
Ibck, ;incl Cartliai:'
1 IN^injK'ii. vSdiU'
tlicy arc dead, ami
: cities of the world
' liiat the God, wlm^
y-fonrth of Auj^u •
on a city of Italy a
iraiice tliat staid
xn centuries, is still
tes sin now as nuKli
en and has at his
1 the armament it
with which IK-
eir iniquitous pic-
[t was only a lew
> that Brooklyn and
felt an eartliqnake
sent the people
to the streets, and
;ed that there are
lire now suppressed,
dieek, wdiich, easier
in a nursery knocks
; of block houses,
te a city, or engulph
leeper than Poni])cii
ed. Our hope is in
the I^ord continued
ican cities.
by the doom of
that have jjcrislicd
uffianisni, or tlKir
leir Idolatry or tlu ir
r only dependence
make thin<;^s wmse.
to heal leprosy, or
I reformator\' power
I p^lad to say benii,ni,
II yet take them fur
t speed and jiowcr.
mists to dwell ii]iiin
ied henrt and !'m'(1
profligacies balked.
THK WORLD AS SKIvX Tf)-I
).\V
aM(
I S<)ll|>
ransomed, and t-iti
reformatory associations, of as\ I
es ri'deemid. (
""' ''^■^l>'>'>'lcney with Tr lh„,nsj„hih
ums of merc\, lireak
'ivc lis j)ietiires of ilmrehc
coming when a great tidal
U,
)f IllOI'
"u iiiion tlR. M,
-11 1 1 1\
L'ii bi
liried will b(.(
wave of salvati
ilaiKl nil- ions \iit
'f good
men and women wh
■•>UK- Pompeii resinreeted. Ik
on will roll o\cr all
i>r\ ,
^eiiiM.ls, of
"I eoniplaint
Show that Ihcd:
llw\V
of the typt' of IJK. h,„.,v,,i
"iiimgdown from <;,„l „nt of 1
'uiiation today that (lid
will
U've themselves no rest di
nionstrate the fact that tl
"urcitii,. Mi,,sv how i'om-
lere are millions
eitie.'
It,
dv shall
ay nor night until cities that an
•■■aven. I hail the ad
take type fr(,in the W-u- ]
•arfnl
ami
afr
IKl
L't 1
icon made to the si
vaiiemg morn. I make tl
enisaleiii
rant
iim return
Lift the r;„sp(..| standard. I
and de
nvering cowards of his arm\-.
part early from Momu Cilfad." C
ct the word run all along the 1
Tward into this ,\
!'• siiiK- ] roc-
W
lo;
lor God ! Tl
llle,
Ik !)i' tliioii..]
le most of us though 1
air
Shall
1 streets where
All our cities forllod ! .\
|>rn in the eonntr\-, will di
iniageddoii that \-
our last
the stufTingof ballot-
.k 1
loxes
'rkt\- and good order d
meriei lor (;,„| ] 'j'
<■■ i" town. Shall
liosoivcr
■e U]) the
now opening and
>e upon City Halls whe
oininate,
OI
\\i )r>
liped with the contrite 1
Shall
^e sit for till- last t
•re justice reigns, or d
hi- world
our last
grog-shops steiieh the
llixions ? God
til re
save tlie cities! Ri<,|
lean or wluif coh
line Ml some ehnreli w
einagogues i)|,,t for
kightcousness is life i
(ormalism goes tin
lere ( ',(1(1 is
oiigh unnieaiiini
'que, terrace,], templed, sculptured, boastful
God-d
"I'luitv is death. \
'enu-
el\ Ilk
aiK
l-vememher jiic-
1 eiilomlud I'l.iiipeii !
CHAPTKR Xljr.
THE COLOSSEUM.
no ONE would think of inakinj;- au extensive journey thronsh Europe without
visitinj^ Rome, and liaving seen it once it never passes out of your nieniorv.
Rome ! What a city it was wlien Paul visited it ! What a city it is now !
Rome ! The place where ViriTJl sauy and Horace satirized and Terence lanj^lK d
and Catiline conspired and (Jvid dramatized and Nero fiddled and Vespasian persecutid
and Sulla legislated and Cicero thundered and Aurelius and Decins and Caligula and Julian
and Hadrian and Coiistantine and Augustus reigned, and Paul, the apostle, preached tlie
Gospel.
I am not nuich of a draftsman, but I have in my memorandum book a sketch which
I made when I went out to the gate through which Paul entered Rome, and walked up the
very street he walked up to see somewhat how the city must have looked to him as he came
in on the (iospel errand. Palaces on either .side of the street through wUieh the little niis-
sionarv advanced. Piled uj) wickedness. ICnthroned accursedne.ss. Templed cruelties.
Altars to sham deities. (Glorified delusions. Pillared, arched, domed, turretcd abomina-
tions. \Vickedness of all sorts at a high premium and Righteousness ninety-nine and three-
fourths per cent off. And now he pas.ses by the foundations of a building which is to he
almost unparalleled for vastness. You can see by the walls, which have begun to rise, that
here is to be .something enough stupendous to astound the centuries. Aye, it is the Cnlns-
seum started.
Of the theatre at Kphesus where Paul fo\ight with wild beasts, of the Temple 'if
Diana, of the Parthenon, of Pharaoh's palace at ^lemphis, and of other great bnildiu,o;s,
the ruins of which I have seen, it has been my jjrivilege to write, but nothing 1 have seen
as \et impresses me more than the Colosseum.
IVrhajis, while in Rome, the law of contrast wrought upon me. I had visited the
]\Iamertine dungeon \v..ere Paul was incarcerated. I had measured the opening at tin tup
of the dungeon through which Paul had been let down and it was twenty-three inclus hv
tweutv-si.x. The ceiling, at its highest point, was .seven feet from the floor, but at the >i(ks
of the room the ceiling was five feet seven inches. The room, at the widest, was fiftieii
feet There was a seat of rock two and a half feet high. There was a shelf iV.iir
feet high. The onl\- furniture was a spider's web suspended from the roof, wliicli I
saw bv the torchlight I carried. Then; was a stibterraneous passage from the dmineoii
to the Roman forum, so that the jirisoner could be taken directly from prison to trial.
The dungeon was built out of volcanic stone from the Albano Mountains. Oh, it was
a dismal and terrifi': place. You never saw coal hole so dark or .so forbidding. The
place was to me a nervous .shcjck, for I remembered that was the best thing that the
world would afford the most illustrious being, except One, that it ever .saw, and tli.it
from that jilace Paul went out to die. From that spot I visited the Colo.s.seum, one of the
most astounding miracles of architecture that the world ever saw. Indeed I saw it inoi iiiiiL',
noon and night, for it threw a spell on me from which I could not break away. Altlongli
(3«S)
THK WORLD AS SKKX TO-DAY
3«9
now a vast nnn, tlie Colosseum is s,, „■ n , ,
-all all that it once was t t, i :h J'':nr M '^' ? can stan.l i„ ti,. cnue and
length, six lHnHlu..l and twelve iVet AR^it H; n-' rf "''''-"^- • '^ ■^' '''' '^^ ^-"-t
people, It l,ad roon, for fifteen thons-.nd , , '" •"■^l'c<l seats lor e,oi,iy-seven thonsand
;-ld sit and stand transfi.:; I " e ^^ ™'' ^" ^'f ''''' """"'■^" ^'■— ' I'^P'^
l.orror. Instead of onr modern' tieke s f "[ S'""''-^^^""' '-arlvnlon, and hrntalitv and
;i-ck dn. up near Ron.e with' 1 ' " *,; r'!:' ['T ""-'"' '"' '''-'>■ '^'■-^' -" '^
^^>- i«." Von iniderstand tlr.l the ni ^ " >Scrt.on 6, Lowest Tier, Seat
addressed h, . hnn.an voiee t .J^ "[[.aT "'n ""■^'''"^^■" ''"■ ^•" -"-ce to ,'
across it, bnt it was „Kide oni; for _J_!^;^^ "'■"^' '''^•'■''^ ■•"'' -"'d Reheard
seeni^r mni ,,.as circular, and at
ativ point allowed fnll view of the
spectacle. The arena in the centre
"1 olden times was strewn with
pounded stone or sand, so as not
to be too slippery with human
I'lood, for if it were too slippery
It would spoil the fun. The sand
Hashed here and there with
sparkles of silver and jrold, and
Xero added cinnabar, and Cali^da
added chrysocolla. The side^ of
tlie arena were comjwsed of
smooth marble, eleven feet Iii<di
so that the wild beasts of the arcma
could not climb up into the audi-
ence. ()„ the top of these sides
ol smooth marble was a metal I
ladino-, havinj>- wooden rollers
which easih- revolved, so that if
a !)aiitlier should leap hio-h ciiou-h
to scale the wall and with his paw
touch any one of those rollers, it
W(iuld revolve and drop him back
a^ain into the arena. Hack of this
"uarble wall suit jiindin,<r the arena
was a level platform' of stone
adorned with statues of .ods and ^^oddesses and the artistic effi.-i,- f
couqueror.s. Here were m,n->Ki, * ,• artistic ettioies of nionarc is and
swinesses with u n^ e n^m.^f^ -I^^ '^r^' i"" ''' ''''^'''' -■■-■ -"
■^at. the .Radiators would wa 1^ in n diZv f, ''^■'"" .^''^' I''-'^' -'-- ^he emperor
Casar! Thos. about to die ^^lute ^"^e1;^r:;;;n;;ks '^ ''T ''''''' ^ "^^^''''
I'v partitions studded with mosaics of cn^rnn '' , ^"^''^"^- "^ -spectators were divided
'••asts of wood arose frl aTSl s o 1 r '/"'' '"^ ^''''""""^'- ^'--'
were suspended, crossin;",; .i. J or n tln:^"S ""'•'' "^'"""^ "'" «"^-^
Pended, the Colosseun, hnvi,,.. !. 'b ."'. '"'"f • ?^ '■^'."' ''^"""«^^ "^ ^'"^ were sus-
KIINS o|' i-m, .■<il.,,Ssl,iM, KOMI.;,
aJid had fonr
nijr no roo
if Tl:
ranges, and the three low
le outside wall
er
'•anges had eighty coluin
was encrusted with marble
I
ns each and arches aft
er
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THE KARTH GIRDLED.
ai'-hcs, and on each arch an exquisite statue of a <;o(l or a liero. Into one liundred and
eij^hty feet of altitude soared the Colosseum. It glittered and flashed and shone with whuU
sunrises and sunsets of dazzlenient. After the audience had assembled, aromatic liquid-,
oozed from tubes distilled from pipes and rained sjjcntly on the nniltitudes, and filled tin
air with odors of hyacinth and heliotroi)e and frankincense and balsam and myrrh and
salfron, so that Lucan, the poet, says of it :
At oiux- tell lliousaiiil ^lalTrmi currents flow,
Ami rain Uicir oilors on tlic iruuil bflow.
Rut where was the sport to come from? Well, I went into the cellars openin<T off from
the arena, and I saw the places where they kept the hyenas and lions and panthers and
wild boars and be;istis
\i(jlenees of all sorts, with-
out food or water uniii
made fierce enouj^h for
the arena, and I saw tlie
nnder<»round rooms wlun
the t^ladiators were accus-
tomed to wait until tin.-
clappini;- of the peo]ile
outside demanded tli.ii
they come forth armed {n
murder or to be nmrdered.
All the arrano;ements were
complete, as enonoh of the
ceHars and ,t;alleries still
remain to indicate. \Vh it
fmi they must have IkuI
turning- lions without fond
or drink for a week, u|)oii
an unarmed disciple nf
Jesus Christ I At the dedi-
cation of this Colosseum,
nine thousand wild bea-
and leu thousand imnioit,,
men were slain ; so tii <t
tlie blood of men and beast was not a brook but a river, not a pool but a lake. Ha\i)iL,'^
been in that way dedicated, be not sur])rised when I tell you that ICmperor Proline
on one occasion threw into that arena of the Colosseum a tiiousand .sta,irs, a thousand
boars and a thousand ostriches. What fun it must have l)een ! the sound of trumiuts
the roar of wild beasts and tlu- groans of dyini^- men I while in the jrallerv the wiws
and children of those dowi- under the lic^n's i)aw wrunt^ their hands and shrieked . iil
m widowhood and orphana^^c, while one liundred thousand people clai)ped their hands, and
there was a " Ha ! Ha ! " wide as Rome and deej) as perdition. The corpses of that an na
were i)ut on a cart or draqxed by a hook out throu<,di what was called the (iate of Deidi.
What an excitement it must have been when two combatants entered the arena, the uiie
with sword and shield and the other witli Ui^-t and spear. The .swordsman strikes at ;.iic
ti;mi'i,i: hi- mi\i:u\ \. udMi:.
:MiiU'iva w.Tsii Roman iioiMi-^s rcyanlnl .i- ihr inipf r~..nati.in of divine lluniiilit. sli.-
was accnrdillKly llu' iiatniiu.-ss of arl-. trades, ami war, aii.l was iiivoKtd liy paint, rs ixicts,
crallsnuii and luTms, II, r uldi^t teniiik' at Kunic w.is on llie Capitoliiir' nill, piiinrt-il
(diovc. SlK'Wasa diely of tlR- Crct-ks iiiidtT tile name of I'allas Atliiin'. lli-r most rtlc-
ated and colossal statnt was that made liy I'hidias. iil" kdIiI and ivury, which wa.s once the
Klory of the I'artlunon.
THK WORLD AS SKKX TO-DAV.
man with tlie net and snc-.r- 1„> i i , ^^^
;;;e ..on,sn.an an<, jer^s hi.'; theT^Lrl^-^ "^^ ' ::;V; ^'^^ ^'"^ "^^ -^ ^'^ -<' ^'^
lus foo on the neek of the fallen swordsn an ' "Z ' '"'^ """' ^^■''" """•^ "'^' "^t puts
as much as to say : " Shall I let hint t , ^sh If T' '" ;'"'' '"'''^ "'^ ^^ ^'•^' ■"-''' 'i-S
!'^''s dead?- The andienee had two sio ' , ^ '^' '^''' ■^'"^"' '"'0 Ins hodv unti
waved their fla^.s, it „,eant sn,!' , r „ ' ' "^ '"'''"'' ^^'''- ""'^''t "ive If t . l
- '-ant slay Inn,. ( ,e;:;ll^ , 1 1 ^r "^^^Tf " ^^ ^"^■>' ^--' '^-- tinunl J d. f
- let up but that was too tan. ^,"''11:'' "^^" ^"^y- '^^^ -'' "- '^'Hen wo: d
tl.c- K^aller,es were turned down j_____! "^'^^^i^'ons, and generally the tluunhs fn.„,
•'"<! with that sion would bJ
iH-ard the accompanying shout of
" ^'11 ■' Kill ! Kill ! Kill ! "
Vet it was far from bein.r ■-,
■"""otoneofsport. for there was
a change of proorani in that
wondrous Colosseum. Fuder a
strange and powerful machinery
iKNon.l anything of „„Klern in-
^c■^t.on, the floor of the arena
w,uild begin to rods- and roll and
tiKn give away, and there would
^miir a lake of brio-ht ^vater
ai"l <"■ its banks trees would
si'ving up rn.stling with foliage,
aiKl tigers apjjeared among the
Ji'Hgk-, and armed men would
^'-'"ic forth, and there would be
iligerhunt. Then, on the lake
"1 the Colo.s,senm, armed .ships
would float, and there would be a
^^■' ('.irht. What fun: What
1'"^ of fun ! When pestilence
came, ui order to appease the
.U'hU, in this Colo.sseum a .sacri-
''^•'- would be made, and the
pt'ople woidd throng that great
amphitheatre, shontin-r • "The
--ianity, whether vou like its f i^M^ ^ " tl T ' "^ \ "' '^ ^''nstianity, and it was
- while, in the Colossemn a Ro nn , i •''''"' ""' "'^'^•^''^^•■^' °'" ^'^"^"n-^- ' )ne
--I enraptt„-ed speetatr i^e ,o"k „ /f "^^ ""^^ ben^R celebrated, and one hundred thou-
-' ^licing each oiher to de^U J^l " ^i 'Z^'^;! T "'''"'■", '" '''■ -•-^^- ^^^'^'-^
■ one bv the crneltv that he leap.-d t!::!i;:'::"h '^ '''' '^^"'^ "' Td-.mchus was so ove
liumau b(jnis in the jaws
■swordsmen, and
ped irom the
ilierv nito tl
I
pushed first one back and then the otl
f arena and ran in bet
icr back and brok
le
ween tl
t' np the
39-J
THE EARTH GIRDLED.
l-i f
ctmtust. ( )f conrsi.', the audience was aiTnnilfd at liavir.y llieir sport stoi)ped, and tliey hurled
stones at tlie head of Teleniaelms until he fell dead in the arena. liut when the day wa^
passed and the i)assi()ns of the people had cooled off, they deplored the martyrdom of tlu-
brave and Christian Telemachus, and as a result of the overdone cruelty the human sacrifice-
of the Colosseum were forever abolished.
What a o;()()d thin<^, say you, that such cruelties have ceased. Hut, my reader, the same
spirit of ruinous amusements and of moral sacrifice is abroad in the world to-day althou,<^li
it lakes otlur sha])es. One summer in our couutrv there occurred a scene of puji^ilism nii
which all Christendom lookd!
down, for I saw the papers on tlu
other side of the Atlantic ocean
.qivinjr whole cohnnns of it. Will
some one tell mc in what respect
the brutality o( that day was su-
perior to the brutality of tlu-
Roman Colosseum ? In .some re-
spects it was worse, by so nnich .h
the Nineteenth Century pretends
to be more merciful and move
decent than the Fifth Centur\.
That pui^ilism is winninj^ admii-
ation in America is positively
pro\'ed by the fact that years a^^o
such collision was reported in a
half dozen lines of newspaper, if
reported at all, and now it takes
the whole side of a newspaper to
tell what transpired between the
first blood drawn bv one loafer and
the throwiui; up of the spouj^e hv
the other loafer, and it is not the
newspaper's fliult, for the ne\v>-
jtapers <rive only what the people
want, and when newspapers put
carrion on your table, it is because
\ou prefer carrion. The same
spirit of brutality is seen to-da\ in
many an ecclesiastical court wluii
a mini.ster is jiut on trial. Look at the countenances of the prosecuting ministers and, not
in all cases, but in many cases, you will find nothin<,r but diabolism inspires them. 'J'Ikv
let out on one poor minister who cannot defend himself, the lion of ecclesiasticism and 'he
tijj^er of bij^fotry and the wild boar of jealou.sy and if tliey can get the offending minister
flat on liis back, some one puts his feet on the neck of the overthrown Gospelizer and l.iks
up, spear in hand, to sec whether the galleries and ecclesiastics would have him let up ov
slain. And, lo ! many of tlie thumbs are down.
In the worldly realms look at the brutalities of the presidential election a few years
ago. Read the biographies of Daniel We1)ster and .\lexander H. Stephens and Honice
m^ti ''^ui'k^
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THE WORLD AS SKEX TO-DAY.
? In some n--
Greeley and Charles Siiiniior n„.i T ^ .
story of clefhu-ationand'c^ ,^ : . ;n':,2^;"f ^ ^-;'- -<' Ja-- C. Hlaine. and if the
and bil]i„o.s,.ate and dan.nable k h hr IT "" 'f l"'^' ^""' ---■'it.^• and hunpoon
Pol.feal arena and the howlin.Ld 1 as;h:^ r^: ' I^^h'''/^'' "'^ "\ ^^"^^^ ^^I-ts o„r
"pon ,t are better than the Ro„,a„ Colo se U' f 'r'" "'"' ^^■^^''^'" '""^^ ^'"^vn
tl.e rn.ted States had appropriateh .Z a t , , " "'''"' ''"' '^"'^''^^■"^^ ^'""■^ ^^
men n.entioned. and A.neriean jonr al !^^" To , S ?h 7"" " /"" "' '''' '"■^^-^-ished
tat.onsover their departnre and said , , '' ^'^'^^ ^'x' ^Vest, went into hunen-
Whendidthenatio^lHeabo^t th:^^ T'';^erV'"T '" '''''' '"' then,, I Xd.
n.alediction, or now, since their death whenl„l '"'^^ ''''''' '■'"^'' ''t .^^ve then,
sp:nt of ernelty that you deplore tlR.nc'r^ "'""• '""" ''^■^^^•fi-'^tion. The san,e
^vorld seems to have for the downfall o ,*^'^'"'^^'-'"'" ^^ ^^^^ in the sharp appetite the
-antal lif^ was thon.ht aeeorZ ^ ^ -.f ^ ':;;':: ''f '" /'-, ^'vorce of thLle wlu.:
world wants more of the spirit r-_J ahscondino: of a bank cashier. Oh, the
of " Let-him-up," and less of the ~
•spirit of "Thtunbs-down;'
There are hnndreds of men in
tlie prisons of America who
ought to be discharged, because
tliey were the victims of cir-
cmnstances ,„■ haxx. sufTered
ciH.ngh. There are in all pro-
fessions and occupations, men
who are domineered over by
others and whose whole life is
a struggle with monstrous oppo-
•-^ition, and circumstances have
their heel upon the throbbing
and broken hearts. For Ood's
sake, let them up I Awav with
the spirit of " Thumbs-down ! "
A\'!iat the world wants isathou- k.m,.
c:;;;::;: "J^^inrrsi;;:,;:; ':^; ™i t;'rs*;- '-'" "n - -'-"- "^- - ^ ^ -
""' ™ .i.e half .i,„t is ci»v,, ft :;:.':." ""■ '"'" "" <'■■"' "•"' « -p !■»» .-..
.«■ » .1 Htateor „a.io,.,,l ofBcial or •," ',;,;' ■"':","' •■" " "'""•"■'■"-."r as a l,isl,„p,
:;. a,,.™. „.„„. :,„. ,„ sa,,;;;: -u r ,1 ^1 ';;,n;; , ; rc:.i" ^'"^'^ "=- • "■•' -'"-'-^^
ilie Diocletiansa. „ot all dead T'lc ppU,,-- i r Colosseum oppresses vou.
-t all emptied of .aeir r-'e The vK ^ i'"''' '"'" '''' '''''''' "^ '•''^'•^ struggle' are
'"^'-'-nost of thetii.eaddTnothi,; to C'"^ ■■ >°""^ ^'^^ors of dogs and e^ts and
^•c•spasiau^s Colosseum. Th . Ui s of Z T"''' ^?' ''^ "'">' '-^ ->'tinuation of
'-".e circles a.id in dav schools it^^^illirt, fr'""^''''-\ '" "''''''''' ^'"^^ -
f-luig that sets two dogs into combat or In. 1 '^^^ Av with a pin, or the low
i"'i:fircrence that .starves a canary bd TJ "' f V^ ''' "''^^1''"' ^^^y^^^^'^^ -^ the
c!as^ Nero or a Adl-armcd Tpopl-o ' / ? U ' ' " ^^'"""^"^ "' '"^^^^ '" -^ko a mst-
ec. ApoL> on. It u onld be a good .sentence to be written on the top
<'.i:m;kai. xiiav ,,]
KciMi;.
394
TIIIC KARTH GIRDLED.
liiifof a child's copy liook, and a fit insoriplioii to l)o ciiihroidorcd in the arni-cliair of tli<
sittin<,r-r()(>ni, and an apiiroprialo motto for judtjc and juvy and districl-attorncv and slicrifl
to Iooi< at in tliL- I'onrl iionsL' : " lUfssid arc llic nitrcifnl, for llicv- sliall obtain nitrcv."
And so tin- rnins of tliat Colosscnni s])eai< to nic. Indeed tiie most impressive tliini^-
on eartli are rnins. Tlic fonr ,i,neatest strnctnres e\ir l)nilt arc in nn'ns. Tiie Parthenon ii:
rnins. 'IMie Tem])Ie of Diana in rnins. The 'rem])lc of Jcrn.saleni in rnins. The CoIo'-
sentn in rnins. Indeed tiie earth itself will \et he a pile of rnins, the monntains in ruin-
the seas in rnins, the cities in rnins, the luniispheres in rnins. \\a, f'nrlher than that, a'
up and down the heavens arc worlds burned up, woilds wrecked, worlds extinct, w(jrkl.-
7:xc.w\TTr. vs oi' Tin-; v'oki'm. komI'.
Thr I' 'I iiltl at Roiiif \v:is (irijiiimlly a tnarkct-placc. paved witli stone ;iil(l stirnnnnleil hv sttct-ls and lioust-s until .172 It. C. w :■ u
it lici ■MUf the plaof ()f ;isKrnilil\ of the Cimiitia 'Priluili.'i, wtit'rc the pt'nplc were ci in veiled hv .'i nniKistlate lor the ijnrpose of ]tnltni.i
all pnhlie questions tf vote. Kiriul excavations ol' the l-'oi nin and its jiresent apjie. nance are illustrated attove.
abandon.ed. Worlds on worlds in ruins I Hut I am o;lad to say it is the same old Heawii,
and in all that world there is not one ruin and never will be a ruin. Not one of the ])e.i:iv
,q;ates will ever become nnhin,ned. Xot one of the amethystine towers will ever fall. .\<it
one of the mansions will ever deca\. Xot one of the chariots will ever be nnwhee!' .1.
Not one of the thrones will ever rock down.
The last evenin*.,'- before Ieavin<>- Rome I went alone to the Colo.s.seum. There was not
a livin,s4 .sonl in all the immense area. K\-en tho.se accustomed to .sell curios at the i'.dir
entrances of the iniildins,^ had j^^one away. The place was .so over\vhelmin<,dy silent, I CfUiii
hear mv own heart beat with the emotions aroused by the place and hour. I paced 'he
arena. I walked down into the dens where the hyenas were once kept. I ascended to he
If ann-cliair of tlic
UtDiiKN and slicrill
obtain iiRicy."
t ini]iressivc thinjLjs
The I'artliciioii ii;
ruins. The Colo-
nonntains in ruin-
rtlicr than liiat, ali
lids (.'xlinct, worlds
THK WORLD AS SKi.N TO-Dav
house, ntltil 472 H. C w '■ IT
:r toT tht- piirposf of pun lu^
llioVf.
same old Heavm.
it one of the ]km;!v
vill ever fall Nut
\-cr i)e nnwhet- >\.
m. There was iMt
ciu'ios at the ;iir
in.!:,dy silent, I ctniid
lonr. I paced ilie
I ascended to 'he
5y6
THK KARTH (JIRDLHD.
eiii])cror and slave, and pastor ami pcojilc, and ri^ditcoiis ami wicked, the ain]diitlieatn
.seeiiiiiij^' to rise to infinite liei^iits on all sides of me, and in the centre of that aniphitheatn ,
instead of the arena of cond)atants, a <;reat throne stood, risinj^ hij^her and hij^her, hij;lu i
and liis^her, and on it sat the Christ for whom the martyrs died and aj^ainst whom tin
Diocletians plotted their persecntions, and waving; one hand toward the piled up splendors
to the ri<4ht of Ilim, He cried: "Come, ye blessed," and wavinj^ the other hand toward
the ])iled up glooms on the left of Him, He cried :" Depart, ye cursed." And so tin
Colosseum of Rome that evening of m\' journey seiuied enlar^^ed into the am[)hitheatre ol
the Last Jud.Lrmeut, and I passed from under the arch of that mija^hty structure, mij^hty even
in its ruins, ])rayin<;- to Almighty tlod, throu<rh Jesus Christ, for mercy in that day fji
which all other days were made, and that as I expected mercy from (lod, I mij^ht exercisi-
mercy toward others, and have more and more of the spirit of "Let-him-up " and less and
less of the spirit of "Tlnunbs-d(nvn."'
CIIAI'TI'R XlJir.
MV RECEPTION IN THE RUSSIAN PALACE.
™c.."n«c.n..m,.-.,a,„ ';;,,:« -^^^^^^^^ n, ,,d„„r„r ,,,,„,■,,„ ,„„ ,„. ,„^
ave
itcd
nOISK Ml. iilK KOMANOn-s, Mr
tets that will reverse v„„r „,,„„■„„. if thev I,, e s' . '"""" " ""''"itieau,
■ >-... U, R„s..ia will, •„» „„'„, b,,;^;,', « .H e, ™ i!"^ "^ ""■"'' "7" '""-'■
■nuunla,!, „r fal.rieatioi, n-liiel, l,a. for ,,ar, ..eenl,, J, ■■"" ""''^""^l'=^ from ll,e
r-r ,. ..V .„e fae. .„a. .,„. .„,.ia„ ,a..,„a,e i, -o IZfl,;*;;:;;!: ^^-l''' ',,^,-»;-
(397) "^ ^"^
39S
THIC KAKTll (;iRI)I,i:i).
T'liitid States or iiiali<!ii (ivoal liritaiii or (itiiiiain or I'raiitx', and l)v flie i:i'xt ca1)le<'raiii
tl
R' I'alsiliood is f\|)os(il
witli (iiriiiaii
in>l
!•■
for \v(.' all uiKkrstaiiil luij^lisli, ami many of our ])t()|)lf arc raiiiiliai
1. r.iit llu' Russian lani^tiay;*.", bcautirnl and easy to tliosc born to
speak it, is I') most \-ocal origans an MUprononnriahlf tonj;ni', and if at St. IVlcrshuijr oi
Moscow an\ anti-Russian calinnnv wcp denied, the most of the worhl outside of Russia
would never see or liear tlie
deniah
Wliat are the niuti\(s
I'or nn'srepresentati(jn ? Coni-
nu leial intiiests and interna-
tional jealousy. l< nssia is as
larj^rf as all the re-' of lunope
put toj^etlier. Rv.'nieinl)er that
a nation is only a in. in or a
woman on a bij^ scale, (io
into any neighborhood oi
America and ask the ])h\>i-
cian who has a small |)ractiee
what he thinks of the physi-
cian who has a lar,^;e practice.
Ask a law\er who has no
briefs what he thinks of the
lawyer who has three rooms
filled with clerks trying in
vain to transact the super-
abundant business that comes
to him. Ask the minister ■who
has a very limited audience
what he thinks of the min-
ister who has overflowiuL;
audiences. Why does not
Europe like Russia? Because
.she has enouj^h acreage to
swallow all Kurope and feel
she had only half a meal.
Ru.ssia is as long as North
and South America put In-
<;ether. There are two Kiun-
pean journals that I know
of which keep two men on
salaries to catch up everv-
thin<i^ tmfortunate in Ru.ssia and exaggerate it, or if there be nothing unfortunate then t"
mannfacture falsehoods concerning that empire.
I stood in London one siunmer with tickets in my pocket for St. Petersburg. It
was two o'clock in the afternoon and I was to take the train at three. An American physi-
cian came in and .said, " Yon certainly do not think of going to St. Petersburg?" I sai<l,
"Why not ?" He replied, " Have you not seen the morning newspaper with an account ut
I.OllS Kinl-SCII rROl'KlKTOR OI' "THH ClIR ISTI.X .N lil.KAl li
ri<A\Kr,INC, COMI'AMON IN RCSSI.^
THl' WORLD AS SI-KX TO-DAV
Petersburg. It
sl)ui<r i'
Til
the cIioKra in St. IVtii
were two tliDiisaiid five Imiulred
I>ital (li^liicts, the popiihitioii ll\ iii" in te
en turning to a iiewspaper I I'oniui the up,,!! !hal ll
eases of eholi ra in St. Tet
iioi. Am! it
er.-l)iir<4, liif cit\ (li\i,k(| in 1
199
lire
i(i>.
was aliii()>t as
in Ml
1 halted
'rhe^ 1 li t T ""■'""" "' --onra,,,,^ t^.L^nin, I >,arte.i ,or St. Pet r 1 1^.
Ihee was not a ,s,„gk. case ol eholcra in St. P.tershnr. or .Momow, and w ,. not , we
tiutil a month a ter I kit tluii- Hut tl,„ f-„i i, i • , , ' '" ' ^^''^ '"" -'^'ise
...ereial errand. .Ml til: snnn,;:i. '"' "'""'"'"^ ^""'"" "'"' ''"'" ''^ -"-
tourists who inli-iided \isitin;;
Russia turned l.ael;. and weiU
ilsewliere. Thr hotel in St.
I'etershur),; wheu' I slopped had
received onkrs en.^.ii^ini.^ e\er\
room and ever\ mattress l.\- in-
leiided visitors. iWit the report
( oncerniujr cholera led to the can-
cellation of those eii,<,ra,<,^emenls,
• iiid in the -real hotel eapalile
ol eiiti'rt.uniiio hundreds of i^ufsts
I would think tlu'ii- wert' al)oiit
twenty. .And m, all over north-
ern Russia the daniaj^e was done.
.\rter returning [o America I -aw
in two eveninn- ))apers something-
like tlie rollowiii;^- in hi^;- letters:
\ttem|)ted .Vssassination of the
Imperial haniih of Russia. Ves-
terda\' the ini])erial train was
iieariiij; Warsaw. Dynamite was
put between tlie tracks, hulas the
imperial train was l)elaled. an
ordinary train t. k the track, .and
it was blown up, (ive jK'ople killed
and fourteen woinuk'd. The luii-
peror and his lily cominj,^ np
alter a while saw their narrow
escape, and were in great e.\cite-
iiicnt. When I read this in an
e\ening paper I laiiglied aloud
and said to tho.se in tlie room
" Xot a word of truth in it." The
iu',\t morning on]\- one paper re-
lerred to the evil report and that
luper said tliat the report tlie evening befoi from Russia was not true. The onlv mistake
about It wa.s tliat the imperial family were at home at Peterhof. There was no imperial'train
out Nobody was killed, no one was liurt, and no dynamite Iiad been used, and nothin.r at all
..Hi happened. A few davs ago it came bv caldegram and was published throutrhovt America
I'lat a Kn.ssiaii woman had eatt
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THE EARTH GIRDLED.
especially luni-rv, nor slraiU'iK.l in ciicunistaiiccs. Hut to show tlie barl)arisni of the
Russians tins slorv was cal.l.-.l concmiin- tlie achievement of this woman in catinjr a child
at one nicai, an.! I suppose tiicic were iiun.iivds of tliousands of pcojilc fools cnouoli to
bciicvc It. A Rceni stoiv fdlin- many columns of ncwspai)ers conccniiu- cases of crudties
HI Russia said to have recentlv occurred, was printed ori-iuallv fortN- xears a-„, and was clieii
dramatized, l)iil the lellow who revived it now no douht was well pai.l for its re],rodiictioii
" I!iit," savs some one, "do you mean to cliar-e the authors and the lecturers wlio have
written and spoken a<raiiist Russia
with falsehood?" P,y no means.
Von can find in aii\- city or nation
evils inniinierahle if you wish to
discourse about them. I .said at .St.
Petersburj,^ to the most eminent lad\
of Russia outside of the imperial
family: "Are those .stories of cruelt\
and outraj^re that I have heard ami
read about, true?" She rei)lie(l.
" No doubt .some of them are true,
but do you not in America ever have
officers of the law cruel and out-
ra.i,^eous in their treatment of offend-
ers ? Do yon not have instances
where the police have clubbed
innocent persons? Have von no
instances where peo])le in brief au-
thority act arr().<)aiitly ?" I replied.
" Yes, we do." Then she said.
" Why does the world hold our jjov-
eruinent responsible for exce])tioiial
outra.i^es ? As ,soon as an official is
found to be cruel, he iiumediateh
lo.ses his place." Then I bethou.ulu
my.self : Do the people in America
hold the .n-overumcnt at Washington
responsible for the Homestead riots
at Pittsbnrj,*-, or for railroad insurrec-
tions, or for the torch of the villain
that consumes a block of houses, or
for the ruffians who arie.st a rail
train, inakiuo- the pa.sscni;ers hold
up their arms until the pockets are picked ? Wliy, then, hold the TCniperor of Russia, wlm
IS as impressive and -enial a man as I have ever looked at or talked with, responsible for the
wrongs enacted in a nation with a population twice as larjre in numbers as tlie millions ol'
America ! Suppose one inouarch in Ivurope ruled over I'u.olaud, .Scotland, Ireland, France,
Germany, Siwiu, It.ily, Austria, Xorwav and Sweden. Would it be fair to hold the monarch
responsible for all that occurred in that ini^htv dominion ? Now. von niust remember
tliat Ale.vander the Thi-d reigns over wider dominion than all tliose empire.? put together.
i)ow\c,i;u i;mi'i^i ss (n- ktssia and mi;u DArcilTiCk.
.? baiharisni of tlie
an ill catiii^f a child
pli' fools flloll<;li l(,
ij: cases of cruelties
s a.!i;o, and was then
or its reproduction,
lecturers who have
ken as^-ainst Russia
'" By no means.
aii\- city or nation
le if yon wish to
hem. I said at St.
■ most ci'iiiicnt lad\
le of the imperial
se stories of cnielt\-
I have heard and
'?" She replied.
:? of them are true,
America ever haw
nw cruel and out-
rcatment of ofTeiid-
lot have instances
ice have cluhhed
? Have \(m no
:3Coplc in brief au-
ntly?" I replied.
Tlien she said.
•orld hold our j>o\-
ble for exceptional
ion as an official is
.'1, he ininicdiate]\-
Then I bethou.i^lil
people in .America
cut at Washington
e Homestead riots
r railroad insurrec-
orch of the villain
)lock of houses, or
who arrest a rail
2 i^asscii,qers hold
•or of Russia, who
responsible for the
as the millions ol'
d, Ireland, France,
hold the monarch
u iiiust remcmlK.
ire.s put togetlier.
402
THK KARTH GIRDLED.
,r:'
i \
'i
\h
As a nation is uuh' a man or a woman on a l)ijj; scale, lot mc ask, woiilvl \()n indixichi-
ally pivlVr to l)c' j;i(l,!4<.'(l 1)\ vonr lanlls or yonr virtues? All people, except ourselves, lia\e
fanils. The pesiimisl attemiUinL; to wril^' your l)io<,n-apliy would lake nou in your weaker
moods, and the ])iclure of \on on the fust jia^e of your l)io,iL(rai)l;\' woidd he as you lookid
after some meanness had heen p.racliced on you and you were teariuj^ ma<l. Now, as I am
an optimist, I i^ive you f.iir warnin.L,^ that if 1 ver write your bioj^raphy, I will take you a.s
you looked the day your divideiul-
came in twenty per cent larger
than you ever anticipated, or the
morniniL; on yonr ,>a\' to husir.es.-
after yonr first child was horn, or th
morning after \ <)>n conwrsiou wIkii
hea\'en had rolled in on yonr soul.
'1 he most accursed homnnculi of all
the earth are the ])essimisls, who,
whether they judjjjc individual or
national character, and whether they
wield tonii^ue or pen, are filled with
anathematization, and who lia\e
more to sas- about the freckles on
the cheeks of 1)eauty than of the
sunrises and sunsets that flush it.
I would like to read the funeral
service over the last pessimist, hut
I would omit tiiat part which make-
re'erence to a Resurrection as be-
r entirely irrelevant.
It is most important tliat this
coviiilry ha\'e ri.t^ht ideas cou'.cruin.i;
Russia, for, auion<j ail the nations
this side of heaven, Russia is
America's best friend. There ha>
not been an hour in the la>l
seventy-five years that the ship-
wreck of free ii.sliHitions in .\nui-
ica would not have called forth from
all tlic despotisms of luirope and
.\sia a shout of f^laduess wide as
earth and deep as perdition. Ihit
whoever else failed us, Russia ne\e!
did, and whoever else was doubtful,
Russia never was. Russia, then an old gjovernment, smiled on the cradle of our govern
ment wdiile yet in its earliest infancv. Empress Catherine of Russia in 17-6 it
thereabouts offered kindly interference that our thirteen colonics mij>;ht not po dow:i
under the cruelties of war. .X^ain, in 181-5, Russia stretched forth toward us a merciful
Land. When our dreadful Civil War was raejint:; and the two thunder clouds of Northern
and Southern valor clashed, Russia practically said to the nations of 1
I'Ria'ixT or ST. PKTKRsnrRc.
)pe
Keep
iiiKl yon iiidixidu-
L'pt ourselves, luw e
on ill your weaker
1)0 as you looked
(1. Now, as I am
I will take yon as
;lay your divideiul-
• per cent larger
iiticijxited, or tlu-
iir ,>ay to hiisir.es.-
ild was born, or lli ,
ueonversion when
d in on your sonl.
'd lioiiiuiienli ofall
e ])essiuiisls, wlm,
id<,a' individual or
r, and whether tlie\
pen, are filled with
, and who lia\e
ut the freckles on
L-auty than of tlu-
isets tliat flush it.
read the funeral
ast pessimist, hut
L part which make-
resurrection as he-
levant.
n])ortaiit that this
it ideas coD'.crnini;
i<j ail the nation--
eaven, Russia is
rieiid. There has
lour ill the last
:s that the shi)!-
'titutions in Anui-
•e ealle(i forth from
us of Kurope and
? jjladness wide as
s perdition. I'm
cd us, Russia ne\ 1 1
■ else wa.s doubt fn!,
die of our govern
ussia in i7"6 ci
slit not fro down
ard us a incrciiiil
loiids of Northern
ope : " Keep \onr
TliK WORLD AS SKHN TO-DAY
'•'••"Is ofT and let the brave men .,f H,,. v,„.,„ , c ,
rehearsed so„K- of til-- ■ -• ^'' "'"' '^"""' -^^t^I^
403
->■--• ^....•^-■;;:j::::ur;:;;j';L;:;;;:v;:'^ r-'^^ ^••- ^wn tr.,nb,es... ,
v.'unn to remember the position vour f.th ■ Ik ^ h ' ' "'""/? ] " ^■"" ''''■^- I-'-''lv too
.•-n..nded: 'M,h, ves, I ,-eu,ember, I re iie it ' T' ''' '''''^' "'"'"'^ -'■■'^- '•^■
-Olds which dc.monsirated to nie t ha I e " "";■ "^" '"' —> t'-atim, of the
.-lH-.ial household. lsU.nUn^:'^^i:^Z';r' '''' "?" ''^■^" ''^-'^ '' - "-
^" -■ '•-'-- did. looking oiT through \.,'i,vir::i '"'■'"^ "'^' ^v"' ^'^ ' ^"■''"- --■
a fleet of Russian ships.
AKfll ()).• TKHMi.,,, MOSCOW
" Wliat arc tliev doiii"^ there ^" I n«t- 1 i
R..ssiau warships in ;;,r New Vor^H^^b:;:' ::'^ Wo^'" "'f ^ "''''"' ''"^'"^^ '^ ^1-
^'nps was iu San Francisco Harbor. '> W I la t doesth T" T ""'^'"^ ''''' "' ^"-■^'^"
■•"t ,ket immediate answer. In fhese two m ''" ' °"'' '''^''' '"'^^^'^^ l>"t did
:'^'eep. Their great mouths of i o s X' .^ '^rd " T'.^ ",: ^"'"•"* ''^'^ ^-■"-' -""^
•" the air or drooping bv the fla^^staff m.d , ' " "" '^"'■'^'■'" ^'^''^^ ^^-''^^ther floating
Seward, Secretary of^State, asktd f R "t , v"""''' '7'" '"'I'-^'^i— s. William H
i<-ian ships in American waters aucf^:": ^^llsl;^"' Washington, the meaning of those
.ot no satisfactory response. Admiral Farragut .said
404
THK KAKTH C.IRDLED.
to a Russian officer after dining in tin.' lionie of the- (.inint-iii politician Thnrlow Weed tliat
maker and mnnakcr of Presidents: " Wliat are you doin.i; lieve willi tlu)se Russian vessels of
war? " Xot until the war 'vas over was it found out that in ease of forei.i^n intervention all
the f:;nns and the last i^iin of these two fleets in Xew York and San I'raneisco harbors wen-
to open in fidl diapa>on upon an\' forei,t,ni ship that shoidd dare to interfere with the right
of Americans, Xortli and .South, to settle their own controversy. lint for the fleets and
their presence in American waters, there can be no doubt that two of the mightiest nations
of Europe woidd have mingled in our fight. lint for those two fleets, the American govern-
ment would have l)eeu to-day only a name in history. 1 declare before (iod and tlie naliim
that I believe Russia saved the United States of America. Last Jidy I stood before a gnat
T1R. TALMVCI: r JC.WINC. Till': CITY HAI.I., ST. IM-TIlRSHrUC.
throng of Russians in the embarrassing position of speaking to an audience three-fourths
of which could not midcrstand my language any more tlian I could understand theirs, lint
there were two names that they thoroughly understood as well as you understand them, an 1
the utterance of these two names brought forth an acclamation that made the Citv Hall nt
St. Petersburg quake from foundation stone to tower, and those two names were "(leorL:^
Washington " and " Abraham Lincoln." Xow, is it not important that we should feel right
toward that mighty and Ciod-given friend of more than one hundred vears? Yea, becan-i
it is a nation of more possibilities than any other, except our own, shoidd we cultivate its
friendship. There is avast realm of friendsliip as vet unoccupied. If the population of
the rest ol liurope were poured into Ru.ssia, it woidd be only partially occupied. After a
Tlinrlow Weed tliat
)Sf Russian wssils of
vii^ii iiitfrvciuiiiu all
uciscu liarhois wtii,-
.■it'cre wilh tlic n<;lit
!ut for lliL' tlcfls ami
K' niiolitic'sl nations
ic American j;o\ (.rn-
(Itxl and till- nalinii
stood before a yn at
dicnce three-foinilis
:-rsland theirs. Hut
ndorstand llieni, an 1
ide the City Hail of
atnes were "(ie()rL;t
we slionld feel rijOit
cars? Yea, l)ecaii-(.
nid we cultivate its
f tile population of
■ occnpied. After a
RUSSIAN MIMTARY TYPES,
(405)
4o6
THH HARTn (URDIJ-D.
while, AtiK-iica will he so well populated that the tides of emij^ratioii will <;o the other wav,
and hy railroads from Russia at Hehriiij,' Straits — where Asia eoiiies within thirty-six iiiilfs
of joiniiif; Aiiieriea — millions of peojjle will pour down throu^di Russia and .Siberia, and on
down tlirou.s^h all the re<4ions waitinj,' for the eivilization of the next eenturv to come and
enllurc orcat harvests and build mijjjhty cities. What the I'nited States now are on the
Western Hemisphere, Russia will he on the Ivistern Heniisi)liere. Not only because of
what Russia has been to our Republic but Ijecause of what she will be, let us cease tin.
defamation of all that iKvtains to that threat em]>ire. If Russia can afford to be the friend
of America, America can alTord to be the I'riend of Russia. And now I proceed to what I
told the lunjjeror and the lunpress and all the iin]icrial family at the I'alace of Peterhof I
would do if I ever ^ot back to America, and that is to answer some of the cahnnnies which
have been announced and reiterated and stereotyped aj^^.-iinst Russia.
Calinnny the first ; The lunperor and all the imperial family are in perpetual dread
of assassination. They are practically jiri.soners in the Winter I'alace, and trenches with
(hnamite ha\r
been found (\u<^
around the Win-
ter I'alace. Tlie>
dare not ventun-
forth, exce])t pre-
ceded and fol-
lowed and sui-
rounded by ,i
most elaboratt
military .ijuard.
M\ answer ic
this is that I
never saw a face
more free from
worriment tli.ui
t h e Hmpcror'^
face. The Winlu
I'alace, around
which the tun-
ches are said
to have b ee n
cliarj,'-ed with dynamite and in which the imperial family are .said to be ])ri.soner.s, has ne\. ;
been the residence of the imperial family one moment since the ]iresent hjuperor has bitn
on the throne. That Winter I'alace has been chan<;e(l into a museum and a picture <^allev\
and a place of jjreat levee.s. He spends his summer in the Palace at Peterhof, ten miU-^
from St. Petersburg:; his autumns at the palace at Cratschina, and his winters in the Palace at
St. Petersburg, but in quite a different part of the city to that occupied bv the Winter
Palace. He rides throtio;!! the streets unattended, except by the Empress at his side and tin-
driver on the box. Not one of my readers is more free from fear of harm than he is. \\>
subjects not only admire him but almost worship him. There are cranks in Ru.ssia, but
have we not had our Charles (iuiteau and John Wilkes Booth? "Hut," .savs .some one,
"did not the Russians kill the father of Alexander III. ?" Yes. but in the time that Russia
I'llKTKKSS 111' S'l'S I'I'TI-:!* \M. IVMI.. Si', I'l'/ri'lKSHCRr,.
'''''^•: WORLD AS SHKX TO-DAY.
lias liad one nss:issiii.t;,,i, , i i- **""
^ "■ ';;" ■' ^'" ".i..- p.... .iM. ;■;;,;;;;,:';::; ;;» j- .■■■ -.■ ,-.,„.,',■':
•\'«-' yon an ant„crat in vom- f,,,. '' '""^''■•
styl.ofhnsiness? It all depe ;;;?;;!, ^
t" oppress, and fn.n, the tin, Jl'lr^^ r'n" "i '" '"'' ^""'■'■'■' -'-■^''- '<' • '
t-'-. the lunperor who heean.e i . . , ' ./T """'''" "'"' ^^■'^ "- ^von.ler of •
t-.andan,eehaniethat lu. nuj S , Jj ;':^^'''"^-r- ''■^'' ''--^^''t hdp ship ^ ,J
of 11,.. sc, ' r ,"''" ""-.."■•■.l.".' tl.c u,u,„ci|,,ui„„
.».c..r';„.] ™,;^;;!» :;:;;'''.»' i.ep.',,K.,,i.
:;:;;.« n. e«re,„i,v „f „„,, *",;";;;■;■ "'':';'I'V«»"." desperate ,,,=,.,. ■
4C)S
Till-: KARTH (^IRDLI'I).
p(.(>l>li', that l',iii|)in)r |nil down his lit-'ad on tin.' pillow of dust, altliouj^di lie liad not
ucliicvi'd llic favoiilf idea of his reij^ii, Russia lost as };(H)d a uionarch as ever was crowuid.
Then eauie Alexander the Second, the tatiier of the present lunperor. Auii<l the niij,ditiist
t.pposilion, and inuuuierahle jjrotesls, he with one stroke of his pen, emancipated l\veni\
million serfs, practically sa\ in'j:, "(lo free. Uv yoiir own masters, and this is tor \()U and
vonr children forever." What a niarxeloiis character (if kindness was Alexander the .Second,
the fatiier of the pnseu'
luni)cror, so that tlie pres-
ent luuperor, Alexander the
Third, inherits Iiis beni^-
nit>. Alexander tile vSecond
liearin).j tliat a iiol)lenian
had formed a conspiracv
a}j;ainst liis life, had him
arrested. Then tlieeycsof
the criminal were banda^id,
and he was put inacarriaj^e,
and for some time traveled
on, only slo])pinjj^ for food.
.\rter a while the l)anda^o
was removed, and snpi)osiiiv;
that lie must by that tinu-
be almost in .Siberia, fouml
that he was at the door of
his own home. lint this
jMinishment was sufficient.
The same I-jnpcror haviiij;
heard that a i)oet had written
a ])oem defamatory of his
Ivmpress, ordered the poet
into his i)resencc. ICxpcct-
iu!j; s^reat severity, tlie port
entered the pal.ace,and found
the lunperor and I'.mpn.'-^
and others to<i;cther. " ( loi .d
moruiuj^," said the Kui])cnir
to the offender. " I heir
von have written a nio-'t
beautiful poem, and I ha\e
sent for you that you may
read it to us and we may
have the pleasure of hearing
it." The man cried out :
"Send me to Siberia or do anythinji; with me, but do not make me read this poeiii
in vour presence."' He was compelled to read the defamatory poem and then the Empress,
ajjaiust whom it was aimed, said : " I do not think he will write any more verges
about us aj^aiii. Let him j^o," .And so he was freed. And now comes in ."Mexander tlie
THI'; WAV I WAS Kl'.CKIVll) AT ST. i'i;Ti;i<siirKC..
Itlioiijj;]) lie had not
IS ever was ciowiud.
Amid the iiii);lititst
ciiiaiicipalfd tweiitv
this is for you and
ifxaudcT the Stfoiid,
her of llie ])risen'
r, so tliat tile piis-
jeror, Alexander the
inherits his beiii.^-
lexaiider the Secoml
that a iKihlciiiau
niied a coiispiraev
his life, had liini
Then the eyes of
linal were banda<;ed,
was put inacarria;;e,
some time traveled
■ stoppinj^ for food,
while the bandage
loved, and siipjiusiiii^
ninsl by that tiiiu'
):a ill Siberia, found
was at the door of
11 home. Hut this
neiit was sufficient,
ine Ivniperor liavinj;
lat a i)oet had written
defamatory of his
s, ordered the poet
i ])reseuce. K.\]Kit-
at severity, the juxt
the i>alace, and foniid
ipcror and lMn]Mi>-;
crs to<j;cther. "(locd
Ij," said the Kmiienir
offender. " I hear
ve written a nit^t
il poem, and I ha\e
■ yon that you may
to us and we may
e pleasure of hearinji^
'he mail cried oni :
me read this poem
nd then the Emprt ^s,
te any more vei-es
es in Alexander the
•w
• ■* mi i-4'if
lift
^i^m^<^
"" I. ii f
mv
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Till-; C.RKAT HKI,I., MOKCflW.
.„.. ... ,.n ,„ ^„.co., can., u. c. k..uo,, . u. .... u.; ..s^;;^^^^
Mo.co,v,calk.ItheC..r Kol.,ko , >s ine ,ar«c^.> ^ "! A^Uki -it un U,. Kremlin walls, with lorty-U
.we.a..one ,va i,i«i,. Ti. i.u wa. -->;■;-:. ^:^^3;::,:ru;:^:,r;;!^s^niiu, ..,. ..ce .,.. u .,-,w „.,,
"!"" "T"'::Z:i pJ^ JTurrrZ U-^r For c... .„„„.•., ...rs it lav -"-i •-'!,-'- l',- ^r.^; '"
;:;r n1^;:;;;1s r^lu^^a'^It ^ .,. rais.. a,,, n,™,,,., .,.0,. a „c,W.al, «,u.rc ,t st,ll r.n,a>n
Cur olil lllL-tal is }.'noiu<i.
"■1,
•I'lH' value of the bull at tlR' i"
(416)
ijT 4(«ooo pounds [iiiil slamliiii;
Kri-mlin walls, with (orty-tlure
h lorcf that it sunk iltt'ii i"lo
hair eliilicildcd in thf i;li«iii'l.
Ik value of the bull at the \«'Ce
THK vVORIJ) AS SlvKX TO-DAV.
wiN:!:'^;;;^::;'::;:;;;:;:;^;::;;: - •■' '"™-'
and
v.liicli as anlciitly
-itl.staiulin. all this, thi„< "th" j " ^'"''""^ T' '""""'" '^'"■^"'^- ^^'■^- -^t!
^'-' l^"'P-r. aiHl so tl.at cdm m of 1^,^'' '^"'' """"■. ^''^'" "^ I-— ^'-t dislikes
(latter. ""'"• "* '''^^"' ''' assas„nalmn drops so flat it can fall „o
'^alnnuiy the second : If vou -o to Russia,
here and ()iiestioiK(l there, and'
\nn
111 d
are „„der severest espi..na.i,re, stopped
"J^-r ot arrest. lint my opinio,, is that ifamini
eoNvov oi.- c().\i);.:MNi:r), ri-ssia.
» "."1 so ,1,.,, ,l,eir titlerc„;,,l I e ec , , ' f w '" "," ""'' ''"' '""'"'" ™>'
THK EARTH GIRDLKD.
Q
'""•""~ -"^•""' '" '"' T'"" '"' "• 'n-::,;;:'!:.''. ;r.: ' . ' "i....^ ..«.. v„.,.- suv.;
;^;;::,:;;;i;;,:';;:,.;;L.;r:s:;;;:,::^:.i-: f. .^^ --™"-"--"
,:,„„UK.. ...■ i.. x-v v.,.-t ...■ u.. M..i<i-i ■•;;"- ;|='';;| ;';•;- ,„ ^,„, .„„,, ,,„„,„„ „,„,,
0.1l,.....v UK- ll.ir.l : K..-».a .....1 .!» ...1^. -"V^" " .,,,,, .H.llm,.. I...I ..cTsmaum
„,„1 i,„|,ri,.nm....l ..,.1 m.lr..sc „..,.l..al.l. . ». . ' ' , ,,,„ „.„,, i„c l'>x-fcct, .,
„tat ,.,. .1... .-..CSV .1.... a ..... ;; ;-l^ ;,;:.,., , ".. ...» cU,- of St. ,.acrsb.,„,
„„.l.vl...*.cl.i..n,„si„>.ssis.„a.U....lU..l.....,.c.or. I .,,.,1 U, l.m^^J^ 11^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^,^^
(ircck Cluirch?"
"No," said lie, "I
am a Lutheran. '
"What is your
religion?" I said
to one of the hii^h-
est and most influ-
ential officials at
St. Petersbur;-;.
He said : " I am
of the Church of
England. " M > -
self, an American,
of still another
denomination o I
Christians, a n d
never having hecii
inside a (iretk
Church in my life
until I went to
WINTICU r.M.ACl.;, RISSIA.
posui... ■•.;.,. <.,.K <."-;-;t''srT.:..:t"::. r. b:.f:;: irivoo ., i.n.i.aa„.. ...
and adaplat...... I l.a.l .."t Li-c. .. ■'^t. 1 lUr. '" "^ forgotte,. tl.at tl..'
preach .1... C.ospcl of Cl.r.sl as I l.cl.cvc .t. "• '^;'^", J"'; „f„e„ce ii. bel.alf of ll.e
'c,.i...oa.. War, vvlncl, .book the --* ^^ "" rcTrJ e .'..e, " have there „ot b...
persee.,te<lChn»t.a„sotall..at.on,o T,„h.>. ''" | ;„ „„,,., ,i,„es i„ New
persee,.ti„.,s of ..ther relis.c.s ... K..» a >.° •'«;'''; ;,,^, ..„., ,„ A,„erica ha,e
bee., o,,traKeo.,sly Leated eve, ,..,cc 1 "' "T.. f,„,„ the stea„,er wharf to tl,.,.
THK WORLD AS SKKX T()-I)AV.
-IiQ
eves he is iniconi-
.here is sometliiuu
k after your sihi i
11 you j;o there a-
se from Sontlun:
supcrvisal than n
K'r religion excciit
111;- l)nt persecution
her rcli,L;iou. I'.u'
with the I'refeet, a
of ,St. retersbur<;.
)puse your reli<j;i(iii
is tiiat of t'l.
(Ireek Church?"
"No," said lie, "i
am a Lutheran. '
"What is your
rcH<;ion?" I said
tooueof thehi.i;h-
est and most iuflii-
ential officials at
St. Petersbin;^.
He said : " I am
of the Church ot
En<rUuid." ■Mn-
self, an American,
of still another
dcuominatiou o t
Christians, a n d
never having been
inside a (ireek
Church in my lite
until I went to
in the Greek Churcl;
,e verv plainly that a
either oflfice or social
sty, fidelity, nioralitv
?ived an invitation to
)U forgotten that the
uce in behalf of the
" have there not bein
other times in New
ews in America have
lese in our land have
teamer wharf to tluu
mtion is in every land
and in all ages. Some of us in the differenl deiioininations of Christians in America have
felt the thrust of i)ersecution, because we thought differently or did ihin-s (liffeienllv \u>m
those who would, if they had tlie jjower, put us in a furnace eight limes heated, one more
degree of caloric than Xebueiiadne/zar's. Persecutions iu all
lauds, !)ut the I'au]Kror of
Russia sanctions none of them. I had a most satisfacu.iv talk with liie JMiiiieror a'hout the
religious of the world, and he thinks and feels as von and I do, that religii.n is something
between a man and hisClod, and no one has a right to interfere witli it. Vou may go
right up to St. Petersburg and Moscow with your Kpiscopal lilui-y or \.air Presbvleriaii
catechism or your Cougregationalist's I,i1)eralism or vour Imuiersiouist's !!aiilislrv,'or any
other religion, and if you mind your own affairs and let otlier> mind theirs, \(iii will not be
molested.
Calumny the fourth : Siberia is a den of hornns, and to-da\ i.eople .are driven there
like dumb cattle; no trial is afforded to the susjiected ones, llie\ are ]iul into (piicksilver
mines, wdiere they are
whipped and starved
and some d.iy find them-
selves going around
without any head.
Some of them do not
get so far as Siberia.
Women, after being tied
to stakes in the streets,
a r e d i s r o b e d, and
whipped to death in the
])resence of howling
mobs. Offenders hear
theirowu flesh si.ss under
the hot irons.
But what are the
facts? There are no
kinder people on earth
than the Russians, and
to most of them crueltv
is an impossibility. I
bold in my hand a card.
Vou see on it that red
circle. That is the government seal on a card giving me permission to see all the
prisons in St. Petersburg, as I had expressed a wish in that direction. As the messenger
handed this card to me, he told me that a carriage was at the door for my disposal iu visiting
the prisons. ,t .so happened, however, that I was crowded with engagements and could not
make the visitation. Hut do you suppose such cheerful permission and a carriage to boot
would have been offered me if the prisons of Russia are .such hells on earth as tliev have
been described to be? I a.sked an eniiucnt and distinguished .\merican : " Have vou visited
the prisons of St. Petersburg, and how do they differ fre.u .\mericau jirisons?" He replied :
" I have visited them and they are ;is well ventilated and as well conditioned in everv respect
as the majority of the prisons iu .\mcrica." Are woiueu whipped in the street ? X\) ; that
statement comes from the manufactory of fabrication, a mannfactorv that runs ni(dit and
ST. ISAAC C.VIlUaiKAl,, ST. l'i;Ti;HSIirKC,
Tnam
1 Si
^.^ TIIH KARTll C.IRDLHI).
dav. M. tin. supplv .nav m..i the .Uu.an.l. I>nl lu,w alu,.,t SHnvia^ Mv ansxvc.r is SihcHa
isVlu- nvisnn of- Russia, a ,>nsn„ ,uo,v tl>an Iwi.v ihc s,.. ol th. I n,U..l Males. J.,1 „
"anan; n.an tl>at .v.v liv.l, his nan,, a >vn..un. U n.rcv thvnu.lu.u Chns n, ,„n,
,K.clau.d l.vv..icv an.l y.u that tlKsvstcu. ..f transportation ol rnnnnals Iron, KnssK. m
Si , a was an achnirahlc ph.n, a.lvocatin, op.n-air punishnicnt raUna than cn.h.n.connK.n ,
ul also hccans. it was takin, all oflVn.has hnndrc.l> ot nuLs awav hon, th a, .. „
;,.„„,anions. John I loward, alU r uatn.ssin, 11,. plan of .l.p..,lat,on ol cr,n„nals In.n
knssi a to Silii-aia, i'oin,n.ii(k-(l it to l^i.t^land.
1 n,an o;,nn,it> nn.nkr in Knss,a. h. is not dcctvocnt.d as .. deotiocaUc hun or
,l,„kol to ,k.atl, l.v a hallu a> wc chok. hi,n to .Lath. Mnnlccas an.l .l.sp.ratc x,llan,.
ll'W Ml'.Kl II ANTS.
rors,
.a pri?
and the prisoner confronts his ace
n-er, an.
1 mark this, as ,n no
oner has been eon
denined bv jnnes ai:
.1 iudws he may apjie;
,1 t.) the vSenatc and aft.
»
U'll States. Juliii
ilioii of criiiiiual-
mt Clnisl(.'ii(!(iiii,
s iVoiii Rtissi;, iM
I i'ii(lunj;f<'iniRnt,
ridiii their v\ \]
>r ctiiiiiiialN l'vi>iii
k'ctnK'iitc liini, ni
(Ifsiuialc villain.-
(looiiied to any kiml
Dcins; hustled ofT in
ed, all the criminals
:a, except in revolu-
ril of habeas coriuis
iohi to challenge the
other country, alta
the Senate and alUi
THI>: WOkl.I) AS SKl'X T()-I).\V.
-121
that to the I''.in|n nn w lid is mn-
violent anil innrderons are sent
tile more nidiKrale eriniinals to
and lliosi.' who have only a lit
|K)silivel\ -enial for climate, to:
know, that Siberia is so larj.;e an(
fri,L;idil\ to torridils-, from almost
that of Italv-. Rnn \n\w tinj^cr
will lind that {\n- lower pari o
of Luitnde, and tin.' liehesl part
de,L;reeoflatitn(le. So that Siberia
to the ])alni-leal' fans at tlu'
that ninetv jier cent of the Rns-
heria <,r() into a climate milder
with birds and embroidered with
the botanists. Mneh of the soi
for ;i plow to liberate them,
in the v;ist majority of cases it
a new start nncKr the best possi-
is allowed to take his or her fam-
olher countrs- _s4rants. In the
intl> ]iardonin,i^. A-> I said, the
I the hardest pait ol' Siberia, bnt
i"ve prdjiitions parts of Siberia,
•iminalil\- to laits oi Sibi^ria
<n onL;ht to know, if \(,u do not
i'le and lon.i^ th.it it reaches from
retie bla^t to climate as mild as
"n.L^ the maiiofthe world and ynv.
iheria is on the rort\-(iflh de,<^rte
Italy is on the same forte-fifth
at'his from the fnrs at the North
MUli. It has been demonstrated
in criminals colonized into Si-
an Xiw \'ork — a land son.L;ful
'va tiioiit;]! manifold to eonfonnd
a rich loam and harvests wait
len a criminal is sent to Siberia
\es him an oiiportiniitN to make
e circnmstances. The criminal
aloni^-, and that is a nu'rc\' no
ieksih-L-r mines of Siberia, the
Tc)\vi:k ()!•■ soiK Aioa-i-, Moscow.
" ' m
\ I.
'(
422
TllK KARTH (URDLhl).
The otlKi
ll,rcc-founhs,^oUK.elKcaus.llicy cl uo.c '^'''',,10 runinu a livclihou-l, ami tins
AH.- l.in, iM Sihcia a wine, ^^'^ -"';;; '^^^ ,",:!? these people c.nni... u,
eo.ue t.. own their own larn.s, an.l •"•'^'>'''^'^.; ;' , \,;,,m (..ve these parts of Siberia
,,,,Uh, and thonsands of ^ '^V "-^^-Vn't NV- «1" vou think is the best
whieh are paradises Ibr sahd.rUy and - --; ^ ^^^ ^vhena nun, eonunits a hi,
.l^lc of a prison-Siberia or n.anv o on. •^" ;^' ' ■^,,,^,,1 ,.^,,, „f u,c enlprit, and says:
erin.e in onr conntrv, the jnd.a. looks uUo the '^ ^ .^. ,-„. ^^.„ ,,,,,-- „e «oes
.. Vou have been ^.nnd .nilty ; I -'■'^7 >;'; ^'^ ^ , ^ ' ^" ''■^^" ''''■ ^" ''^>^'-^"""-
to prison. He is shnt np >n between Ion, -'^ ^ J^ ;\ 7, ,„. ;, ,., ,„,,vated that for the
Hi,re he has served his ten year> he d>es ^ ---' ^^ j, „ ,,^,,„ee to the shnt-iu
rest of his life he sits wUh lol.le.l hand, a ^^ ;., ■'";^„. ^^^ ^„at, when offenders conu
life of the av.Ma-eAnuri -an prisoner. Kivc nu Mi.u. a. ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^.^^^^^ .^^
1
„.,,SKO.PKTKUTHK..KKU-,ON VN ,S,.AN - • - N TM'
NKVA UIVKK, ST. IM-TKRSIUKC.
A 111 eric a w h a 1
cluuice have they '
Ask the poorly sup-
ported societies,
formed to get tliese
people places fnr
work. Ask me. l"
w'lioni the newlv
liberated come from
all the prisons, iin-
ploriiifj; what tluv
shall do. No one
willeoinmend thein.
The pallor of iiieai-
ccraticjii is on tlK'"
cheek. Who warn-
to employ in factorv
or store u man or
woman, who, in an-
swer to the question,
in ri .T1-, w. • ■ -
. , ,1 ,1. .1,0 rf'olv "vState's prison at Auburn or Moya-
u Where did von live last -> shonKl make ^^J^^J^ ,^1 ev are never spoken of as
niensin. ^ " Now, in Siberia they me^ a ^- ^ j>--;. ■ ^, ,,,Hevin, their
criminals, but as unfovtuuates, and '^^ J^^^^ ^^^ L^dJni of the National Societv of
lost reputation and lost fortune.^ \.''^M f th C d en of Siberian Convicts. The
Ru.ssia for the Education --\ f ^ ;;^ ' ^^^^.^^ ,,V a ^^^ of great accomplishment,
president of that soeietv, appomte. ^^> /''%^^'"^''™;' „ , „^ t^.^ful her eves and tremulous
Lul uiucK sympath V, which i^'"-"-^ •^;^^,, ^ P ^^Im^^ was one of the memorable
her voice. The eveunig I passed a ^ ^ ° f ^^•;^^'„;„,,, ,1,^ name of that noble woman,
events of my lifetime. I will not atto p ^" 1™\ ;^,,^^^ ^^^^■,,,,. of Ru.ssia for the
appointed bv the Kmpenn- as the president of ^'^^ J^^\\ ^^^^^ ^^ ,,^,,„, ^^^^
llLationandMorali.ationoftheClnld,.nofC- ^^^^ ^^.^^^^^^^ ^^ ^,,.„.
: -if r Lr ir ;:^:^ai;;^lS:;^-^^ -nee . .. country .r a man
Till-: WORLD AS si-;i-;\ to-day.
A^:-,
i;ils. The oIIki
I'
•> •
L-liliood, and tlu\
jiLoplc comiiij; to
.• parts uf SilKria
think is the l)ist
lan fonunils a hi.i^
culprit, and says;
years." He K<'^-
ir. Xobatli-room.
■vated that fur {\w
Mice to the shnt-in
icn offenders conn
lit of prison in
, ni e r i e a w h a i
hauce have tliev ■'
isk the poorly snp-
lovted societies,
onned to get these
)eople places f"V
vork. Ask nic, l"
,vhoni the newh
lil)erated come from
dl the prisons, ini-
plorin<;- what llu \
shall do. No one
will commend them.
The pallor of incar-
ceration is on llu •
cheek. Who\vanl>
to employ in factnrv
or store u man nv
woman, who, in an-
swer to the qncslimi,
at Aubnrn or Mo\a-
: never spoken of as
ty of retricvin.ij their
! National Society of
jrian Convicts. The
;at accomplishmenls,
;r eyes and trenndous
)ne of the memorable
of that noble woman,
ty of Rnssia for the
.me any snch national
the children of eon-
;his conntry for a man
who lias been imprisoned, or for his children. Cod pits tlum and hasten tin. liuie wiun
we shall, by .some national institution established by the Con<,'re.s>, of thi' rnitid .St.itis
imitate tiie mercy of the Kn.ssian Ciovciinnent tow.ird the innocent children of imprisoned
offenders. lie who charges crneltv on the imperial faniih and the noiiilily of Rnssia belies
men and women as nraeitms an<l lieni^jnant as ever breathed o.xyj^en.
I .sat at the tal)le of an .American in St. I'elersbnr'; and beside a liaroness who had
almost inii)overi.slied her estates by contribution to the snllerini; districts of liic droin^hl. in
addition to her charities she went down to the afflicted districts and toiled for their relief
until she was down with the typhus fever, .\fter recoviTJn.i; from that, she toiled on anion,ir
the sufferers until .she was down with the small-])o\. She was at St. I'etersl)m-,L; tr\ in;,' to
recover her health, and was niakin;^ preparation to icluru to the alllicled districts. She
counnitted tome a literar\- errand, b\ which throu,<^h her translation of the writiuj^s of
eniiiieut Russians, she would furnish free ol' charge to sonu' .\merican publishing; hon.sc,
books the entire ])roceeds of the .sale of which would ;,m) to the relief (.f sutTerinj^ in the
drou;,dit U'^^rj,,,,,,, 'l\^^. l^uipcror himself '^nx^: seveuly-five million dollars for the relief of
CrM-.RAI. VII'W (II- TFO' KUI'MMN, MOSCOW.
The Krcmnii is the .iliid.! of Miisoow, siUiMluil in Mu- ciiilrf of the rily and iialosinw, l,v :, stoiir w.-ill -^S,, fwt in ciro.iTnffrf.u,.
sev. n,l ol ,1,.. ^.ramkM l,„il,li„«s i„ th... n.elropoli,, i,K-lmli„« .hnrclus nmnaMeri.s, ar.n.als a„,l ,„„s.„„;; l„ ,l„. .a.lu.lral c.dk^i
A.d.a„KH Mu-I.acl arc tlu. toinl,^ ol all the C/ars ,l,.w„ lotlw linu- of IVUt l\,v Cr.-at. Tin- Kn„,ll„ i. nik-rc.l l,v live «aUw ,vs tl,!'
.nost^nnporlant of wlnclt ..s the Redecnur's C.atc, H,rc,UKli which .N,,,,ol,o„s anny „u.,clud when it took p/.sse.si,,,, of Moscow
tlio.se suffering from the failure of crops and that is a charily that challenges all hislorv for
an ecpial.
The merciful character of the i)resenl Kmperor was well illn.strated in the following
occurrence : The man who supervised the assassination of the grand-father of the jOTsent
Kiui)eror, standing in the snow that awful day, when the dynamite shattered to pieces the
legs of Alexander the Second,— I .say the man who supervised all this fled from St. Peters-
burg and quit Ru.ssia. Hut after a while the man repented of his crime, and wrote to the
Emperor asking forgiveness for the murder of his father and i)romising to be a good
citizen, and asking if he might come back to Ru.ssia. The Kmperor ixmloned the murderer
ol his father and the forgiven a.ssassin is now living in Russia, unless recentlv decea.sed.
A\'hen I talked to the Empress concerning the sympathy fell in America for the sufferings
of the dronght-.slrnck regions of Ru.ssia, .she evinced an absorbing interest and a coinpa.ssion
and an emotion of manner and speech such as we men can hardly realize, because it seems
tint Ond has reserved for wc.niau as her great adornuicut, the coroiu-l, the lear-jeweled
coronet of tenderness and commiseralion. If you say that it was a man, a Divine Man that
TllK I'.AK'ril CIl DI-KD.
4^4
s: m;;:i:;:::.s 'ii.:;; n^-in- H:..is,;an.. Russia. .... ,.1....... .„ ... ,...>. ..... .,.
„i ^.^,,myva cmmuAUf \\.u,R. ui alum, la . .„„ Aincrican navy. lin!
inw a.)01lt t.K' ])i).ili(.';.:
.lisDiK-rs Inistlci. oil' in Si-
ii'iia? AccordiiiK to 'li'
u>tiiii()iiy of tlif uioM f li
hvalcd literary ciiciiiy ol
Russia, oti.y Inin liuiuluM
aiK. torts -llirn po.itii-al
prisont-rs utre sctit to
Sil)eria in Iwtiity ycar>.
I low many political inisonirs
(lid wf put in prison \k-\\>
(lurin<; tlif four years of Civil
War? We.., I oiicss at .east
,,iu- .lundred tlionsaml.
America's one Iniiidivd
thousand ])o.itical prisoners
versns Russia's f(mr liua-
dred and forty-three political
prisoners. Nearly all these
four hundred and forty-three
of twentN- years were no.)le-
nien, or people desperateU
opposed to the emancipation
(if the serfs. .\ud none of
the political prisoners are
sent to the famous Kara
mines. For the most part,
vou are dependent for infor-
aation up< 11 the testimonv
prisone - '.sho are sent
10 Sil)eria. They all sav
ihey were innocent. Prison-
ers always are innocent.
Ask all the prisoners of
America to-day : " (Uiillv
or Not C.uilty," and nine-
teen out of twentv will
,ti, > V nvi
rcKCii, MOSCOW, IN wmcii tiiv; cokonation chrh
MdNll'S AKIv PI:K1'11|<M1.I>.
Ilr
nl..., ■ X.d(itultV .vskthem how thev like their prison a.td how they like sheriOs and
how'thes Hke tie(K,vent,t.ent of the United States, a,td yott wil fitul these prtsoue s
admire the authoritv that arrested then, and puttishcd the.n just about as nntch as t.u
political prisoners of Russia like Sdjcna.
111. \\itlli."«> ;ill
cUnc y;ilKr\ i<\
u llu' hall.- I>;uk
aliolisluil tnnii
■ail navy. l!n!
: the pdlitir:.';
nslk'd otV to Si-
t'ordiiiK I" 'li'
)f till' iiio^-i C' U-
rarv fiiomy i>\
ly tulll liiiiuluil
hrn political
i V\tlO SI' 111 til
1 twenty yt.'ai>.
political inisoniT'-
t ill prison laii-
four ycar.sof Ci\il
•11, I jfiicssat Ica^t
idrcd tliousaiid.
one liiuidri-d
ralilical prisoners
issia's four liu.i-
)rty-tliree political
Nearly all llie^e
red and forty three
years were iiohle-
)Coplc despciiiteU
) the emancipation
rfs. And none ol
ical prisoners an
the famous Kara
For the nu'st pari,
epeiideiit for infor-
pcii the testinioiiv
e ' A ho are sent
a. They all sav
; innocent. I'rison-
AS are innocent.
the prisoners ot
to-day: "(Iniltv
C.uilty," and niiu-
t of twenty will
ley like sherilTs and
iiid these prisoner^
ut as imich as tlic
THK WOKL.. . .AS SI'KX TO-DW.
4^5
Ihit von a.sk, how will tiii-< Rns.so|)hol)ia, with which so nianv have heeii hitteii and
poisonetl, he ciind? Uy tin < lod ul' Jti.-.lice hlessiiii^^ ^in h )iiok> and i)anipliki". as aie now
coniinj; out from rrofes,sor <le .Xtnand of Washiiintoii, Mr. Horace Cntler of San iMancisco,
Mr. Morfill of lMij,'Iand, and 1)\ the opefiilij,'^ of our American ijates to the wriliiiKS of some
twenty-four of the Russian untliors and autlioie.s.<cK, in some ropect.s as hriliiaiil as the three
or four Russian authors already known — the traiiskition of those tweiU\-four lulhors, which
1 am authorized from Russia to olVer free of cliar>.je to any lesiMnisihle Ameiu.m pulilishiii),'
house that will do them justice. I.el these Russians tcU their own slorv, for tlu\ 'eihei 'd\
ones fully conipetiut to do the woik, as none hut .\mei iv.ius can fully tell the story (. \nierica,
and none hut < lennans eaii fiilK' tell llu' story of <'ieniian\, and none 1>mI l'hij,disli: " u can
fullv tell the storv of IviiL^Iaiid, and none liul iMeiiehnun can fnIK- tell the st-rv of aiice.
I'AI.ACl'; AND TRI.ASIKS' \1' MDSeu
Meanwhile, let the international defaination come to an eiu, But I have heeii asked to say
something: concerniuii' my reception hy the imperial family List summer. Sle{)piii<^ from the
.Moscow train on rclurniuj; to vSt. Petersbnr<4, an invitation was put in my hand invitiiiji^ me
lo the palace on the followinj^ Friday. I had already seen the Crown Prince in his palace,
a yonnjj man of twenty-four years, educated, clear-eyed, afTa')le, handsome, and on him all
the sijrns of <jood habits. I am sure he will be fitted for the i irone when in the roll of vears
he shall be called to mount it. Hut this invitation from the Ivni])eror I had not e\i)ected.
'hi the day appointed I took the train for IVterhof, about nine or ten miles from St.
Petersburj^. A messenjjcr the day before called upon nie at the hotel and ^ave nie in forma-
tion as to wdiat train to take. He met meat the train, .\fter a ride throntdi .\ beamiful
re.t^ion of country I arrived at the station near the imix'rial <,n-oniids. The loval carria<>-e
on one
a l)iiil(liii}4 wIru-
11(1 cxatuiucd tlu
lliat Uk' cavriaj;!
id roads winditi'^
and sjnvad out in
very carnaj^c n,
ir, I disniounud
lln.' palace ot Uk
iptTor. Having,
cR'd, I was taken
a wailinj^-rooni.
ere I liad a hnii^
ivcrsation willi an
■d prince who has
many years waiti<l
)n the imperial
lilv. He asked nil
ny questions ahont
iierica, especialK
nit the comin.v
ica^o World's
ir, which he n-
."tlednothein.n able
visit. After awhile
ml came that llu
nperor was reach
receive ine. I wa^
1 np 1j\' a somewhat
)\rinthine wav,
lon.u; lines oi sei-
nts, and to what
emed to be the third
)ry of the palace,
here I was as^ain
ilted. An official
ileied the iMiipei-
■'s room and le-
irned, leaving tlu
)()r o])en, and re-
lU'Stin;^' me to enter.
found the Ivmpero!
landinj; mid-floor.
I'ith papers. Tlu
lim to be a splendid
iw, it seemed to nu
poinliiii; to a chair
tile picture of i;ood
THH WORLD AS Slvl<:\ TO-DAV.
427
health, and evervtlun.; in his hioks indicate leinperate livin- I coiild easily understand
liow, when he -ets anion- the children, his own and his nephews and nieces, he challen.ns
them to pull him down, and a half dozen tn-nin- at him, fail to make liim bnd-e and tluii
the yonn,nsters chase him under the trees
"Uncle .Sashal rude ,S;islia !" he can /
yroup. Tlie])hoto^ranhs of the Czar do
f
of his countenance. If I were asked 111
Kot of the character of the iMiipero
I would sa\ ; " IK^ is a strong man an\
openino- of il,,. coii\ crsalion I spoke
111(1 Ins nephews and nieces shout at him,
be tile liwliest one of all the roin]>in,n
lint i^i\e half the kindliness or vivacitv
w words to <;ive the impression I
roiii lii> manner and conversation
wa\- \ou take liiiii." At the ver\-
ol liis niiL^iiC'd and robust plusitine,
TI'MI'I,!; Ol'- n\\< SWIcrK, MdSCdW.
and asked him liow he ,o;ot and kept that brawn and muscle and wondrous vitality.
He rides. He walks. He hews with an axe. He races with his b,,ys. He takes a
clieerful view of life. He worships (mkI. He lives a moral life. He easily digests his
lood. He fears nothin- .\t forty-seven, he has the api)earance of bein- thirtv-fivc. His
autojrraph, which he .-^ave me, looks like a battlefield, but of ink instead 'of blood. lieside
11 that, he has a h;
itip\ Home and
hi
Voice, animated manner, radiant com
s domestic life is bexdiid criticism.
H
e lias a nie
11.
iienance,
II
e is a
bout
six leel two iiiclus in stature
I
THE EARTH GIRDLED.
t it will bo in anotlui
42.S
SI,, i, cvcrv ,„c1, a„ l-.m|.,c.,». ^. ' ■.™|' ~ |,^.,. ^ ..',-!,„. will I.. .." KmU xvar i„ „.n
,„ ,„„ ,iv. IK.,- I,.st -p.— ;^ ; - ,; ' . :, i"„c,l (or such .l,„lc,ak. .k-struci,,,, .1,,.
,l,c rule, ..r ll.c Mrtl. "ill prokr .rl„tn,tj.,n U. ma . c , s p K
MTOCUAl'H Ol- M.KXANDKK III., KMrKKOR OF RT'SSIA.
M-nx^KArH ..K TMK noWA.;KK-KMIM<KSS OV KISSIA.
is amarccd to a tovei.n di^nUary, and :s Uuv -;'\ "^\^''^^^,;X t ken. The va;;n,.^t
bnxul, connnon sens., and will he a qnecn n> anv hnn. ^" ^ ^ \^ ^ ' .^ .^ ^^„^, ,„„,i;i„,, ,„a
.irl can,e into tlK- ro.nn alnu.st c.n a ^^^^^ \'^^;'''\ ""^ ^;X^::'^Xt the doov', till I
could hardlv stand still Ion, enon.h to sludge ^'-''^,, ^^^ ;^^^;;X, " , ..i.^aik h^v,
chew hin, G)rward, was a prince oi abont ci^ht vca,s, -lU cut sa shape ^^^^
,„,h foK.hea.l, but all boy, and had -f "^^-'-^ j' ^.^^ ^ ' ^d^^tl^v allhaH^.u ->
After ..ivnio inc some flowers lov my wife, and NNe had ^.shu! >' J-^^' ' , ;^.
,„ the^ereand the hereafter, I left the hkuu, ""l--- Jll^jt;^/' ^ i-. ;^ „ore a,
tian home as with the grandeurs ol a palace. After dnnn;^ 1 departed.
A'ill be in anotlui
; \ou \vc palled,
,v inoincnts in ai;
n when I entered,
_>rs. Her pietuv -
) oreat war in ou:
le destruction th;u
" Oh, I hope sti,"
;r exalted idea m
thinj; chaniiin}; in
eniug the door slu
THK WORLD AS SKKN TO-DAY.
429
i\n- l'r\liici- at I'll.rliof ,
lucrhter, is seventeen
"re another danj^hUr,
The oUler dans;hler
ined to be a j;irl "t
aken. The yonnim-t
10 and snnshiny, and
ck by the door, till 1
ihape, a splendid b^v,
kite or playin-; lull.
■h other all happini->
llie idea of a Clii>-
d. Nothing more in
the sliape of courtes}- conld have been shown
Kniperor's carriaj,^' and its attendants took nie
accompanied nie to the door
bnrj4. If all the nilers of
spirit which belon<;s to those
be lonj,r before the bells of
and I think the bells will
joy of those coming times,
the full sweetness and
have heard the bells of
them on the evenini; of
After exaniinin<4 ''^ the
dred eannons which
snow after Napoleon
retreated from INIos-
cow, each cannon
deep cut with the
letter " N," I ascend-
ed a tower about
three hundred feet
liij^h, just before
sunset, and on
each platform
lliere were bells
me
to
than
the r;
was
lilro
demonstrated tliat da\ . The
id station, and his messenger
(jf m\' hotel in ,Si. IVters-
tlie earth were of the same
I met that day it would not
the millennium would rin<j;,
have much to do with the
Iiut \()n can hardlx' know
power of bells unless you
.Moscow rinj; as 1 heard
ni\' visit to that <;reat city.
Kremlin some nine hun-
were pieked out of the
(..■iTHlvliKAl, l)l- (iSI.AlKINO, MOSCOW.
larjjje and small, and I climbed up amon,i; the bells, and then as I reached the to]), all tiie
'lells underneath me beyau to rin^, and the\' were joined b\' the bells of fourteen Innidred
lowers aiul domes and turrets. Some of the bells st nt out a faint tinkle (jf st)iUKl, a sweet
"i "WP
430 TIIH PvARTH (ilRDLHD.
tintinnal.ulati(Mi thai sccMiR.i U. l.rhl.lc in Uiv air, an.i ollicrs thundered forth l.o.mi aftir
l„H,ni, boom after boom, nntil it seemed to sliake tlie eartli an<l fill the heavens— sounds so
weird so sweet, so awful, so -rand, so ehanniuR-, so trenieudons, so soft, so ripplm^r, so rever-
bcratin— and theN .cenied to wreathe an.l whirl, and rise, and sink, and burst, aud roll, and
mount and die. When Napoleon saw Moscow burn, it could not have been more brilhant
tlian when 1 saw all the fourteen hundred turrets allame with the sunset, roofs of <;<'1*1 au«
walls of malachite, aud pillars of j-orphyrv and balustrades of mosaic, and visions ol lapus
la/uli and architecture of all colors min-lin- the brown of autumnal lorests and the blue ot
snnimer heavens, aud the eoullauration of mornin- skies, and the -reen of rich meadows
aiul the foam of tossin- seas. The niinj^liu- of .so many colors with so uiany sounds was
an eiitrancement almost too much for human nerves or human eyes or human cars. But
all that was tame compared with the dav of millennial -lory that is comiu- to our world
when the bells of jov shall sound, ii<n in the sunset, but in the sunrise, nn-ino; out " peace
on earth -ood will to men." Imoiu the domes of all the churches, from the domes of all
the palaces, from the domes of all the capitols, from the domes of all the cities, from the
domes of all the nations— r.ells : Hells! Hells!
Mas' Since writiii- the above Alexander the Third has died, aud the world has been
nUcd with lamentation. The beautiful luupress is broken-hearted, and the children are
fatherless. Xicholas the vSecoiid has mounted the throne, aud I am expectiuK' froui what I
.saw of him that he will follow in the footsteps of his excellent father.
,^
I*
)itli l)f>i)in aftrr
,'011S — SDiiiuls so
ipplinjj;, sorcvcv-
rsl, atul roll, and
Ml more brilliant
oofs of j^ohl aiKi
visions of lapiis
; and the blue of
if rich meadows
iKin\' sounds was
iinian cars. But
n<; to our world
ojins ont " peace
he domes of all
' cities, from the
world has been
tlie children are
Linjj^ from what 1
CHAI'Th:R XLI\-
GOSPEL OF BREAD.
n\VK\TV-FI\'I', million jieople a-hiuijfered in Russia by reason of three vears
of droti.s^ht had called forth the sympathies of the world, and the reli-ious pajier
with which I am connected had at the call of its ])ul)lislier sent about <35,0(.o
worth of breadstuffs I)y the ship Leo which I saw come to the docks about
three miles down the river from St. retersburn. ( )ii a beautiful yacht we left the wharf of vSl.
Petcr.sburL;- about eleven o'clock in the m(.>rnin,c, and havin.i^- on board the ma\-or of the city, a
representative of royalt>-, counts and countesses, our distin(,niished ('onsul (kiiera.! Dr.
UK. TA I. MACK, M.N C, ANC.-l'I.AMv Ol' SHIP l.KO, KKSI'ON I )I NC. T(l A Sl'KKCH IIV Tllh MAYOR AMI K 1 I'U liSli.N-
TATIVlvS OI-' KOVAI.TV, ST. I'lVrKKSIURc;.
Crawford, and chief citizens interested in the international charity, and we soon reached tlie
wliarf toward which the steamer Leo was s\vin^nn<; up. The <,ranj,r-plank of the ship thrown
out, the mavor of the cit\- took his jilacc upon it and made an ad'Ire.ss a])]ireciative of
.\merican j^enerosity. He was followed bv the representative of royaltv on the .same theme.
it never occurred to me that I would l)e expected to respond until the eyes of all those
present were turned toward me. It was in many respects the most trying moment of my
(4,' I)
432 THE EARTH GIRDLED.
public life While. I was .loiuK as well as 1 could, I saw a sccue uever t.. be forK-.tteu. It
w"s he npe al freight train ,v,lliu, down to the wharf to receive the breadstulTs froui he
ZJZ ec aud caJ;v theu, to the starviu,. On each car ..s a fla,, tl>e R>-iau and he
Anlricau fla^s alternatiuo. At that procession of fla^s all eyes were filled wUh te s.
H ml e of working people sUkkI on the banks of the nver to transfer, free of charge the
A r ; o.uuion J? Irid to the rail train. When a few da^. after I saw the UarewUch
or Crown I'riuce, now iMuperor Nicholas the Second, he referred to that scene, and he part I
lul Hk n n. it. .\ few divs after I had u.,t lon<, to renrain in the ante.nK,n> ot he Crown
^ >^ 1 palace. A chan.berhun can.e out bcR.re n.y entrance to ask uj . ,at language
w" Id prefe to c.n.verse, and I responded, "l^nolish." As the door opened I onnd n.vsel
n t^e p esence of a n,au as artless as an>- clerk of a ch. ..'ods store, or anv blacksnnth at
Is anvi The Crown Prince had nothing in his bearing' to indicate that he won d eve,
,S a throne. His photograph, which he sent me some months a^ter mv --aWv^home,
I believe is to be put, toKclher with his antoj^raph, upon a pa^e of tins book .\nnabiht>
1^:L Ld svtnpatin ;;re in the features. Hnt stamped upon all <.f t .n is stren, h aiK
firmness and determination. He looks more like his mother than Ins lathei. He has not
'rU " Mistness his naher had before the railroad accident, nor is he by some nich^
! re-It in stature. His nuuria.ve to Princess Ale.x was exactly to the wishes of his father
^r m;;hc;, and was a case not of international plott,^, or for poll tied --->;;;- -^
of old fashioned love. I prophesv for Nicholas the Secoiul a Ion- and liapp> rciKMi .
f tour ca^ never'forlet mv Russian experiences, and to remind me of them have
onlv to look at the exquisite pre;entation made me after I ,.,t home, bv Kmperor Alexander the
? Id W Caut^cusine, the Russian ^Iinister Plenipotentiarv at Washin^tc^^
me Unt he had a presentation to make me from the Kmperor and it '""st be done on
Rns an so 1, aud so le asked m. to come on board a Russian warship lyin«- in Philadelphia
hX 'on that vessel the Prince ,.ive me a complete -old enameled tea service accom-
pa ed bv a nie.saoe of love which I cannot now think of without deep emotion since
Emperor Alexaudei has <lisappeared from the palaces of earth to take his place, as 1 behe^e,
in the palaces of heaven.
' ful"J,'l)ttCli. It
IstulTs from tluj
ussiau and tlic
led with tears.
■ of char<;e, tin.'
the C/.arcwitclu
;, and the- part I
n of the Crown
what language
I found niystlf
,■ blacksmith at
he would evei
anival at home,
k. Amiability,
is streni^th and
er. He has not
some inches as
les of liis father
sons, but a ease
ppy reii^n !
; of them I have
or Alexander the
rton,telej;;raphed
nist be done on
in Philadelphia
:a service accom-
p emotion since
lace, as 1 belie\e.
CHAl'TKR XLV.
GREAT BRITAIN.
¥ ^ KT me forewarn my readers that I look at thin<,rs from a partial standi^oint, and that
I / at any moment my heart may run away with my head. Whatever other kind of
l_ * '-"^ I »«e in these sketches I will not u.se blue. If I cannot find auvthiu<,r but
" ^''"<-' '"1^ I will not write at all. Rather than that, I would even prefer recFink,
lor that is the color of the mornin.i,^. I would not be offended if I am cliarj^ed witli writinjj
with ink verdant or ^reen. for that is a very respectable color, beinj- the same as the palm-
leaf, and the rushes, and some parts of the deep sea. I shall paint with the cheeriest color I
can find in the .studio. If I find a tear I will hold it n\, till in the li-lit it becomes a "lobule
of melted sunshine.
Eno;land and Scotland ha\e always treated me so iiia>;nificentlv that I am in a mood to
he pleased with everythinir,
Shakinjr hands every dav with thou.sands of people in halls and churches, and at rail-
way stations, till iiiv ritrht hand is di.sabled and fit only for a sling, because of the .stout
lUCKINCllAM I'Al.ACl';, |-R()NT VIHW.
^rips, accompanied by emphatic " God bless you," 1 am swamped for the work of harsh
criticism. 1 tell you at the .start, I like England, her landscapes, her cities, her government,
her common people, and her aristocracy. I here part forever with all the cviiical and satur-
nine. I do not want to live on the same .street with them in heaven. They will always
be singing out of tune, and searching for fractures in the amethyst, and finding fault with
the country, (iive them a world to themselves where they can have an eternity of pouting,
a sky full of drizzle-droz/.le, an owl in each tree to hoot away the hours, and a kennel of
snarling rat terriers to nip the robe of every angelic intruder.
434
Till- I'ARTH r.IRDLKI).
After aii.ilhiT loll- vova-c \vc swiu- iiitu l\w lui.i^li^i liaii.ni, It i^ uiulit, and n.i-kfts,
shot u]) rn.iii llu' stern of the sliij., invite tlie pilol-lxKit and llie steam Uv^ lu come out t-
meet ns. Tiie sea lias its " back u].," aii<l the pilot-bual makes a dash lor onv steamer, am'
misses it ; another dash, and misses it a-ain. Then we see the blue aii<l red li,n;hlsor the In--
boat eoniiii- ont, as nineli as lo sav — " I will show you how to ealeh a steamer 1" aims a', it,
but crosses ill iVoiil of our prow ; aims at it attain, but falls behind our stern. We stand o;i
<leek in the soppin- rain lo waleh this aciiuUic ,s;ame, until wearied we retire to our room toi
slumber. As we arc fallin- to sleep, there is a sudden char-e of stout iiieii into our private
a])arlnKiit.
What is the matter now?
Have the old-time pirates resuscitated their Imsiuc-s, and are we to be .seized and
made to walk the plank > By the dim li.^lit from the hall 1 see the three men b^
mistake ])Utliu- out their hands toward the berth in which sleeps the better hall ol tw.
As 1 look down Irum the upper bertli 1 hear loud voices .sayiu>i, " Welcome to lui--
nrcKiNc.iiAM i"\i.\ii;, smr. vii.w.
luid " 15v dek-ation London, Leeds and Dublin have looked in u]ioii us. I respond
in mv shirt-slccves, but I am so surprised at tlie sudden incursion that the resiK.use is not
worthy of the ,)Ccasioii, and amounts only to a sudden ejaculation ot "Where did von
come from ?" • r i i r
Tint scene was ouK' a forerunner of the cordialitv- and -eiierosilN- of these people ot
(ireat Britain towar<l slranoers. Like Americans ihev have been mucli lied about. Tliev
are warm-hearted and ^^enial to the last de-ree. Their homes, their carna-es, their hearts,
are all wide open. We liave not f.mii<l what Americans call the " -routv iMi-bshman.
Mis digestion is better than that of the American, and hence he can afford to be_ belter
naturc(? If a man has to wrestle with a lamb chop three hours after swallowino- it, his -ood
hniiior is exhausted. The contest in his bodv leaves him no streti-lh lor the battle with the
world l-orei-n wars are not so destructive as internal. When thiii-s .sour on a man ^^
stomach thev make him sour witli all the world. Some of us need not more a " newlicart
accordin*;- to the ,!4()Si)el than a " lu w liver " accordin-; to pliysiolo,<,ry.
ijjjlit, aiul mckt'ts,
H lo cuiuc uul t(.
our sU'iiiiRr, ;iii(!
litjlUs of llie In;;-
lUKV I" aiuii al it,
111. \Vf stand nil
IV to our lodiii fill
11 into our pri\au
to 1)L' seized ami
lie llircc iiu'ii lis
heller liair of U-.
A'l'leoine to ICiij^-
on us. I respond
u^ response is uul
" Wliere did \nu
if these people ot
lied about. Tliev
ia.^es, tlieir lie\arls,
)uty lCii>i:lisliniaii."
fTord to be beltei
lowiiitjit, his ^ood
the battle with ibr
^s sour on a man'-
lore a ■' new heart "
Tin-; WORLD AS si'Hx Today
Tins se.iM.ii of all otiieis tests an I'n.Ljlishuiairs >i)irit,-
4,VS
.„„„,i, . , ■ r , , ' '' 1-- Ullpreeedeiiled foriainx'
veith,,, and ,11 some ol the churches pravers had been offue,! for a eess.tion of moisture
Ir T n"''\ 'T ;?■"■ '■'■; '"■' ^''" "•'''^^■^ "^ ^'''■"^•^•'^'^^' ^•■^' ^•■" '-''-■ ^vl-^'.. it does
^ ' ne on . 1 hec hnuls, like a veil to a beautiful face, add to the attraetivenes. bv oiilv oeca-
sioiiallv belli, withdrawn. When the sun in Mimnu r shines fiou, moruin, tinV.i.dit with
."ten.e ,,lare we alwav. f.d that lie ,. rather ovenloin- the
lUMIles-,
Tiler
e 1^ iioilnn'.
lUlKINCIl AM I", I. \(,1-; THKIlN-l.: ROOM.
more e.xqtiisito than a cloud when it is richlv ed.<red and irradiated
..^c^^all A skv linno w,th clouds in all stages of illumination is a Louvre and Luxeni-
-nio, Clouds are pictures drawn in water colors. Who knows but that Raphael and
knben.s, ^one up hi^lier, niav .sometimes come out and help in the colorin^r of the canvas of
he morni,,^ wuh brush of sunb.am, putli,,, within si.hi of <,ureves the c^nstelh.ted olories
'elou,<,nno- t,) the other side of the Horder . ,>'ories
-m'
■I t',!
f
43^
Now,
liow llic>
siniiiihli.'.
THE KARTH (MRDI^KD.
if in iliis sliadowc'.l weather, I'li-lisluiuu can 1r' so ^t'liial, I would like to know
aic in tlu- usual suiniucr hriKlitncss. It is a delusion that I'n-lislinR'U ddi»ht lo
As near as I can jud^'c each coninmnitv aiipointssonic one to do the urumbliUK for
it and he hecnies the champion urun.l.ler. ( )ne puli.it will do all the Kruuil.lin- for all the
pulpits in the town; one newspaper all the -rund)linp: for the jonrnalists ; one i.ronuneni
citizen the orimil.linf,' for all the citizens. Such a one becomes the pet growler ol tlu
communitv. All the scandal-monj,'ers carry to him forage. They feed Inm with all thr
disa.rreeal.le things of the communitv. Hi- capacity ibr offal is awful. They ml, hnn
doNN-n with the ra-Kcd ed^e of a slander. J<.1) describes tl>''^ ^^j'^ "«^ liu^^!"" .I^!:'!.;!!^.
sni '^
snniTu.- ,„, the e^st wind. Like others of his kind, he eats thistles. These chau.pi.m
.rn.wlersor luKrlish cmmuuitirs <lo all that kind of work, leavin- others nothing to d.,
M \u(.iioK<irr.n unrsi'!, i.iinu
Ki.sniicNCi'; <ii'" I'RiN'ci'', oi-' wai.i'.s.
but to be a<rreeable. Delightful arrauKeiueut ! Let us transfer it to America, and have the
fanlt-fmdiurr in church and .state done bv committee. Take the luo.st powerful '' bear " out
of Wall street and let him do the croaking for all the brokers. Take some ecclesiastic,
who has swallowed his religion crosswise and got it straiiglingly fast in his wind-pipe, tu
hunt down all the lieresv, real or fancied, (^et some one newspaper to do all the work ot
maulin- reputations, exposing domestic infelicities and reporting divorce cases. Let one
female'" ^n.d about," gathering all the gossip, put it up in bottles properly labeled and peddle
it about "from house to house in small vials for those who could stand only a little, or m
lar-e bottles, as it mav l)e required. Let her be known as the championess of tittle-tattie.
Socmen and women might delegate to one or more the disagreeables of the world. And,
as at different times America and England have disputed with each other for supremacv
uld like to know
isliiiRii (k'lij^lit to
tlK'<;ninil)liii>.' f(ir
nt)liii>4 for all the
i ; oiH- proiuiiK 111
ct growler of tin.
iiiiii witli all till'
riicy ml) liiui
ot" the forest as
These chaiiipioii
ers iiothiiijj to do
s.;\.>
erica, and have tlu-
iverful " bear " out
e sonic ecclesiastic,
n his wind-pipe, to
u all the work of
rce cases. Let om-
■ labeled and peddk-
I only a little, or in
ness of tittle-tattu .
f the world. Aiul,
jtlier for supremacy
THK WOklJ) AS SKHN TO-bAV. 437
with oar, and bat and rifle, let the champion American .„nwlcr.„. f.nlh to dispute will, the
champion l..n,l,sh .nnvKr r.-rtiu. hHt of the world. I.t the da^ chosen forthecontcs ,
commm.hn.. ,., .Scotch mist am! hhiolish cloudiness and American <lrix.le. La the o
at each other with threats and aiuioyances and recriminations. La all fanlt-lindeis the
^^..,Id oyer stand roiii... the nii^^ watchiii, the fate of the two nations. The ICiLdishnian
;.u,lit draw the lust blood, but the .Mnerican will prove a full match ,or him aMhe
lie stru«,^de may be lon^' and fearful, and the cxeitenieut surpass that of Ceclmoor
shoot,,,, and Ascot an,l Derby races, but I think uei.lu.r would ,ai,i the vic.orv. Indeed
I would like o see them both ^r„ d„wu together in tlie contest an.I both slain. Then woul.l
perush iron, the earth the bickerings a,,., the suspicions, thesnarlin.s and the backbitin,sof
the word. Hmy the two chanipmns in the saiue^rave, their clubs with tl,eiii,c,.verin,tlieii,
with a bank ol nettles. Read for their funeral service the report of the stock market ju
. f e some .^reat failure. I'laut at the liea.l of it a little i,i,d,tsl,ade, and at the foot , f it
a little ///rr T'oiiiua.
I'^.r epitaph : " Mere lies Complaint and Hypercritieis.n ; Horn in the vear one ; Died mi
tie yc^ir 1895 May the resurrecliou truiupa, that blows ot],ers up into the lixlit, blow
these despicable mi.screauts deeper down into oblivion." K - 'w
Speakiufr of championship remiuds 111. that I was iuvite<l last week to distribute the
IvuRlish prixes to the best rower. I re-retted 1 could not be picsent
I honor n.usele. As the world's heart iini,rovcs its arm will j^row stronger. In the
nnlleuniuiu, what oar we will paddle, what crickets u-e will plav, what wivsUcs we will
tl.row! \X c are told m that dav there are to be " bdls on the hl.rses," „id that means m ^i
and innocent .ayety, and slei.,li ri.les and swift tca.iis, and liveliness, and .ood cheer, an
t,utiuiiabulat,on. That there is bettii,,. at these athletic contests we deplo,;, but we cm, ,o
stop healthful amiLsements because people ab.ise them. There arc men who bet on everv-
tluns. LvcM-y time the lo,^r ,vas thrown from the .stern of our ship, there weie waoeis lost
ami won. I a.s.seujjers bet about which foot in the morniiiK^ the captain would f.,-.si p„t
out of he ,loor of his office, the ri<.lit or the left foot. I'.ettiuo about Llie kiiul of .soup we
should have for dinner. P.ettiii^^ about the hour of our arrival. 15ut all this bcttim, s no
reason why we should not take steamers acro.ss the ocea.i.
For the cause of civilization, we will capture the world's oar.s, and bat.s, and chess-
boa,-ds, and rifles. We want .sanctified brawn. When the animals pa,s.sed Adam in Kdeu to
Rct their namc.s, they dul not dare even to -rowl at that first athlete. Had he been like unto
a modern specimen of weak delicacy, instead of his iiaiiiiu.t,^ them, tliev iin\.ht have swalknved
iH.u up giy.njr h,m their own name of lion or bear. We want more Samsons ; not to
carry off-^atcs, but to haii,.; new ones; not to set foxes' tails on fire, but to put the torch to
the world .sshains; not to pull down pillars, but to buil.l temples of ri.ditcou.siie.ss ; not to
slay I iHl'stines with the jaw bone of an ass, but to kill the a.ss of the world's .stupiditv and
manition. ^V iile the schools go on t.) build the head of the coiiiiu.^. man, and the church
j,^ocs on to build Ins heart, let our out-door recreations j^o on to build his bodv. If that be
the cominjr man, the .sooner he comes the better.
a dt
We all know somethin.o- of how En-laud looks on the upper side, but we alwavs Ind
Mre toL^ct under ,t ..nd looL- „n «. ..... accepted an invitation to plun-e into one <,f
ies of t)ur jxirty we are at the top of the Xun-
her coal mines near Shefl^ield. With the 1;
nery Colliery. We have no plea.sant anticipat
ions of the descent into the (>Teat dejitlis of
43''
Tiii': i:.\R'rii cirdli-:!).
i
till' liirtli. Wf piit (111 caps and ovi-raials as iiioUrlioii from tlit- hlackiiiss of tin- cual.
luu'li oiu' is ainiiil with a siiiali laiiUin. At'tf.r tal^iii;; a ioii^ hualli, in casi- \vc slioiild nd
\L\\ snon ^L\. aiiotlur (ii>|)iirtiiiiit\ , wc step into wlial iiii;;lit he calli'd a n>ii:^ii elevator, Inn
wliicli is called "a caj^e." We stand in tile centre and throw our arms over a bar and hold
fast. 'I'lie sides ot" the ca^je are not ti.i;litlv inclosed; anil llu' oiiK door at the entrance on
either side is the body of the i,'nide, wiio stands there to kiep the passenj,'ers in llieir
t()KNi;K IN TiH': iiorsv; oi- i.iimmi>ns, i.hmiun.
place in case of panic. We are to drop si.\ hundred and si.\ty feet. .Mmnt the capacity of
the machinerv to drop ns we have no doubt, but the question is about the sudden halt at the
bottom of the mine. With steam-power we are lowered, oul\- one rope of steel at the to].
of the ca<;e decidin;,' whether the three of my party and our two <,ruides shall stop at tin-
foot of the sliaft or ^^o on to a landing place in the next world.
" .\11 right?" asked the man standing on the outside of the cage, with upward
inflection of "loice. "-.Ml right;' answered (mc of the guides, with downward inflection.
;iU'ss of tlio coal.
;i>f \vv >lu)iil(l lint
11:^11 flevatnr, Imt
cr a liar and linM
tlif I'litraiu'i' c.ii
issfiij^iTS in tlun
mtfttM -^-
ml till' capacity of
sudden halt at tlu-
if steel at the t('i>
shall stop at tin-
■aji;e, with upward
.vnw.ird inflection.
THH vvoRij) AS sr:i.;\ to-d.w.
We had siui^a.Mc.l to an attendant that we were
n^
'" "" lii'rrv to .a ,,, d^. hottoin, and
Ihercworcscvcraltrainsof car, that conM lake „s'i„ ■;;,;; ", "^ "- """<"n, an<l that
tl-e,Vewen,l«l,iaswell,.dropp.da;;;ti;n:.r;:K;;hr^^^^
no
"insphere. Tlun one niii.k. ah. ad and
'-hind, and l.v the din, ii.ht of o,,,- lanterns 1 artel ,f Z' ^T\ T" '"" 'l"''
I'aslns ni,h(d trains of cars lad.nui.l, i i- ■"''"'"""-" t'l^' l<>n«hlack corridors.
"- — , th. n..;rc;:;;nl;;^ s r ;;;; , ^::t:^rl Tri t r ;"•• '■^'■■^"^-
"»■ wood keep up ilK. roofs of a.al w I i 1 k i le ' " '" ""'' ''-'"^' "^•""■^
lolldown. ' ^"'^^■"^''^'^^^■'''"^ ».onuntla,-cn,as>esniinht
'i'lii-, iiiinc, after iKa'n- workr,
twelve vcars, shows no sjous of cvliausii,,„.
■nmdn.d nienatv still phin.in, their crowbars a dViZe'^s;;,:^ '^■^7
to make I-ii-daud ..reat This i ■, .-i.iii. i i ,, ^^''" ''"^'^ ^" '""'■''»
weather hidden in the cen:;: of Ih^ ^al-ih;"''""' '^^'^ ''" '"'^■^'"^^'^^ "^ ''^ indescrihahle
iKivc Sixteen hours out. \ stout id iucr ,1 ' ' T"" '" '''^' '""■^■' ^""' ^'■^■■'
resoiuidiuj^r |,iasi of arch
;n; shdlinj^s a dav, which of us would like this'hanishnicut Iron.
entoinhineul. j-'oi four shilli
tlH^suushinc^ A sepulchre is not iuviti,,;,, whether huilt
440
THE KARTH OIRDLKD.
licavfiily inixtniv I TluTf is imtliiiij; likt' it. No artilice can succi'ssfnll\ iinitalf it. Von
iif(.(l to .spend a low lionrs dci'i) down in an l'",nj.;lisli mine to a])pR'ciate it. In tlie contra^
it seems nioiv mellow, more golden, move entrancin;.;. Von take oil \ onr hat and h.-.tii,
in it. Von feel that the world needs more of it. Snnsliine for the bodv. Snnshine (>,■
the mind. Sun>hine for the sonl. vSnnshine of earth. Snnsliine of heaven. In the wtini
of the old i)hilosoplier, " .Stand ont of m\- sunshine I " Look here! Wliat do we wanlar,
more of these miners' lamps? 'IMiey mii;hl as well lie e\tinj,ruislied. Their Taint lliek. :
is ahsnrd in the face of the noonday. They were useful to show ns where to tread amo: -
the seams of coal. The\- were ,<;()od to lij^ht up the genial faces of the miners while v>
talked to them about their wa>;es and their f.iuiilies.
Lamps are valnal)le in a mine. lint blow them out, now that we stand under tin
chandelier which at twelve o'clock, ,___ .-, at noon, hau.tjs pendent from tin
frescoed dome of these l)lne Ivnj;-
dips of earthly joy will be sub-
next world strikes twelve for ce-
lisli heavens. >So all the tallow
merged when the old belfry of tlie
lestial noon. Departure from this
ST. tail's. I'KdM HANKSmi'',.
world for the good will be only .ticttiu"; out of the hard working; mine of carthlv fatii;
into the evcrlastin<-- radiance of I-'.denic midsuimne'-. Come now! Stop moraliziui; i
drop that lantern of the collieries.
les
ml
if
!
We will take off our hats in the presence of this old ruin of Kirkstall Abbev n
Leeds, lint what is the use of these Kirkstalls and Melro.ses and this everlastiuo- round
abbevs and monasteries and mined churches? Why are the\- t>f any more iuiiiortauce ll
;m\- other heap of stones or bricks? Yoke the o\-team and i)low tliem niuler. T.
ic.moclastic hannner, and sav dust to dust. (Iraze the shee]) and cattle amon.i^r the disli
ored fra.nineuts or anion- the demolished abbey at Meaux. Caricature Walter Sen
paroxvsni of admiration for mouiili,L,dit on crniiiblin<r arch.
lar
nf
1:111
ikf
iiU-
u'.s
i L
iilh imilalc it. \'(ni
it. Ill till.' Cdiilra,^!
your liat and h.-.lli.
)()(1\-. .SuilsllilR' III!
.'a\(.'ii. Ill llu' wtini
A'hal do \V(.- waul ai;
Tlicir 'faint llifkt ;
vIrmt to tread aiim: ■;
lie ininers while w*
we .stand under tin
^s pendent from tin
So all the tallc'.v
the old helfry of tl.i
Departiue from tli:s
2tei5S
ic of earthlv fatij^ui's
Stop nioraliziu.i; aiitl
Kirk.stall Abbev mar
; everlasting- roiiiul "t
more iui])ortance tli.iii
V tlu'iu under. Take
le anions.,^ the dislMii-
:ature Walter Sk'U'.s
442
THK KARTH (ilRDLKD.
1 'ft
No! no I there is iiotliiii,i> lliat iiiipR-sscs us like these old niiiied ahheys, and many of
the occupied churches of to-da\- are not of so unich use. Wliat a perpetual and tremendous
attestation of the hetter aspirations of the human race I They consider no arch too lofty,
no tracery too exquisite, no architecture too ponderous, or airy, or elahorate, or expensive, to
express the meanin;^- of the soul. In letters t)f eternal <,n-anitc they wrote it, and in windows
of und\in<^ masterpiece they pictured their lon^nu<,r for (iod and heaven.
As we sit down at Kirkstall anioiii^ the fra<;nients of this ecclesiastical wreck, floated
to us from the past centuries, we are overpowered with historical reminiscence, and the
ahhots of seven and cioht hundred years a,i;() come and sit down heside us. The summer .lir
breathing thron<^h the deserted .sacristy, and interlaced scrolls, and silent nave and choir, and
clustered ]iiers, makes us dreamy, and perhaps we .see more than we could see if wide
awake. The columns bearing the wounds of centuries, as we look at them, heal into the
health of their ori.tjinal proportion. By supernatural pulley the stones rise to their old
places. The water of baptism sparkles ajrain in the restored font. The color of the snu-
lis-ht chan<,nn;4-, I look up and see the pictured <<la.ss of the thirteenth century. Feelin<,'
,somethiu<4 cool under my foot, lo, it is the ornamented tile restored from ages vanished.
I hear a shuifling, and all the aisles are full of tl;e feet of the living of six hundred
vears ago. in old style of a])parel, and the living of eight hundred years ago. and the living
of five hundred years ago. And I hear a nnnhliug of voices, and lo. the monks of all the
past are reciting their service. Here are Leonard Wiudress, and William Lufton, and John
Siiaw, and Richard Ikitson. And this is Archbishop Cranmer, come more to look after his
property than to join in the religions ceremonies. And those two jktsous in the south
transept are Oueeu Klizabeth. and Peter .\shetou. a gentleman to whom she is making;
over the Abbey. vSee the.se pale and nervous souls kneeling in the penitential cell cryiui;
over sins committed eight hinidred \ears ago. On the buttress of that tower the two letters
" \V " and " M " .seem to call back William Maishall. the old abbot who ordei^d the inscri]i-
tion. and while we are talking with him and deprecate the folly of a man iuscrihing his
own name on a temple reared to the Almighty, a chime of bells, probabh- hung there in the
fifteenth century, but long ago last, yet rehnng to-day by invisiijle hands, ring out first a
" Wedding March " for all the )iiarriages solenmized in that con.secrated place, and then
strike a dirge for all its Imrials ; and, last of all, rousing themselves to .sound the jubilee
of all nations, calling to York Minster and St. Paul, and Salisbury, and all the dead al)beys
of the past, and all the living cathedrals of the jn-csent, to celebrate the millennium of the
world's deliver.-uice, and all the chai)els, and sacristies, and choristers, and penitential cells
respond Allien/ Amkx ! And then a shaft of light l)rokc through the arched window
horizontally, and a shaft of light dropped peri)eudicularly, and crossed each other, but I
noticed that the perpendicular shaft was longer than the horizontal .shaft, and lo ! and
behold ! I saw that the old Monastery of Kirkstall was in attitude of worship rn)ss/i/^i^> i/sc//.
Mv guide-b(jok at this i)oint dropped from my hand and woke me, and I found a young
artist on a ladder cojjviug the sculptured adornments over the west doorway. " What ! " I said
to myself, "must the nineteenth century copy the twelfth?"
Even so. The highest and most enterprising art of our day cannot crowd past the
^vindows and doors of eight hundred years ago. The ages move in a circle, and it may take
the world two thousand years before it can again do the ribbons and skeins of granite in
York Minster or Kirkstall Monastery. W'hile that artist hangs to the ladder, taking on his
sketch-book the tracerv of the doorway, he makes ns think of the artist nuirderer who u.sed
to stand in that very place doing the same things — sketching the doorway and .stealing the
beys, and many of
al and tremendous
■ no arch loo lofty,
te, or expensive, to
it, and in windows
tical wreck, floated
liniscence, and the
. The summer air
lave and choir, and
could see if wide
;liem, heal into the
s rise to their old
e color of the sun-
century. Feelin(,r
ages vanished.
wir of six hundred
ago, and the living
e monks of all the
1 Lufton, and John
ire to look after his
•rsons in the south
om she is making
litential cell crying
wer the two letters
:)rdei.>l the inscri]i-
nan inscribing his
,■ hung there in the
ids, ring out first a
.ed place, and then
.sound the j>d)ilee
all the dead abbeys
millennium of the
nd penitential cells
he arched window
, each other, but I
shaft, and lo ! and
rship (■iossiii_i> itself.
nd I found a young
y. "What! "I. said
lot crowd past the
:le, and it may take
keius of granite in
idder, taking on his
murderer who usid
IV and stealing the
THK WORLD AS SI'KX 'I')-I)AY. 443
heart of a maiden He was u.ore desperado than artist. liv night, with a gang of outlaws
IK. played he Inghwavnuu,. A citizen with a large sun: of nun.ev, passing ne^r the abbev'
was robbed and uuu-dered. Mary Clarkson, the n.uiden, was in the abbev cTue night, l..i J
wandered there w,th troubled n.ind. U'hile there she .saw a group of uK'n carrving a co ps ?
winch tlK.y ca,ue and bur.ed u> one part of the ruined abbev. The hat of on^ of then,'
e.xt da> to be the hat of her lover, whom she ha<l as yet not suspected of evil. William
He^^^^^^^^^^^^ approaclnng the town to claiu, his bride ; but the true character of the ..iZ
luMng been discovered, the constables .seized him, and Marv Clarkson, urged bv her own
.ense ol what was r,ght, appeared to testis against bin,. The .to,y of tl^. corps, carried
fi.i:i:t sti<i:i:t wn st. iv\i-i.'s, i.on/.ox.
to Kirkstall .\bbey, and the idcntiheation by Mary of the hat, brought to the gallows th
artist desperado. So, under one ancient, crumbling, tran.scendent dourwav, meet devotioi
aiul crime, sm and virtue, the heavenly and the diabolical.
e
otioii
*
WII.I.I.VM ].;. (;u.\l).ST()\K.
" I'r.'iy i-oniL' to Uawank'H to-morrow.
• ■I.ADSTONK."
ri.at was the telegram handed me in the Grand Hotel. London. I was on mv wav
(.me to A,„,,„,. r,,, ,,r three days before taking steamer for New York, the 'above
ehg itfu inyitatum came from Mr, Gladstone. I had seen him a few ^•ears before
4
in church at the baptism of his
grandchild, but had no communication with him
(444)
,'^,L-'?
* w
^AAjEM
TIIH WORIJ) AS SI'.KX TO-DAY.
445
nltli.)n,c,Hi our uvrs liad iiict, and in tl,,. ,.,■ i , , ,
stood and l,.o,<.d aro.nu, U ,„,, Tor w' al, '. v "
',"^••-'-'-1- I saw l,in,, two or tine, vcars' aUenvard
-'-'. as ilK-y pronouMc. it i„ Kn^U.ul is' five ,,^'^^'"''-
iiv-i-'d o\iT to wluTc 1 ,ia(,
■H' woudtTcd wli,, I ^vas, as ,ic
■\'<>\v, Ilav.ardt,!!, or n.,r-
.uaniLi. I ua.. uict In a sn'vaiit at tlir
'l'>or of .Mr. (iladstoiK-'s cast,.,
and admitted into a room,
wduM-f I wailed not more tliaii
live minutes, w,ieu .Mr. (1, ad-
stone entered wit,i fitlie and
elastic stc]) and a cordiaiilv of
manner t,iat evidenced itse,f in
l)ulh , lands put out in wCeom-
'I'.i;- .s;rasp. Me ininiediateiv
si_)oke of tlie wi(,e piil),ication
ol ni\- sermons in (ireat liritain
and ot,ier lands, and asked me
more questions alxnit them tlian
I con,d easiiy answer. Me soon
]m)posed a walk t,iron-,i ,iis
«tale, and, ca,,in<r ,iis do<. to
follow, we started not so mnCi
lor a walk as a run. He is the
only man I ever walked with
that walked fast enouj-li. We
lan up and down tlic lii,,s of
liis spiendid park while he
showed me lierc and tliere tlic
smooth stumps of the trees lie
had cut down, and pointed otit
one where an p:n<>-ii.s]i Jo,-,] visit-
'ii.U- liini Iiad cut down a tree,
hut tlie e.xertion was too niucli
or him, and lie died of lieart
'liscase. Mr. (Gladstone re-
marked, "Xo ]„a„ ^vlio has
heart disease ou.^Iit to use the
i\e. Xow that stump is Jie
place wlicre m\- friend used tlie
axe and died." Wliile talkin,^-
trees he told witli <>reat <-]ee of -i fih,,!,.,, .
-a, now two men we;e cn^in. :L ;\,;;;'t::s.r sidr^ "ri/ unm: iLflS;
'l""e, thev met at t,ie li^art ort,;e''tree" K' f", ''""V '""''' '''"'' ' '"''^'^ "^^"-'v
'''■thefishinoneof ou,aL1..!1;\,.;:"-,.!^'"'''^:'! '" !''^^'- '^ --^' -as the storv
'■■I.AIISTOM.: IV HAWAKI.K.N- WOOD
till
water tlie lake was
our .Anieriean lake.-
lan
perceptibly lowered. I-:
tliat when a fisl
ver and anon Mr. (iladst
I was taken out of
one would
446
THH KARTH GIRDLl-D.
'I
call his (lo.Lj li\ naiiK', ami, i)ii'kiii'^- up a slick, would s]iit uimmi it and liinl it f,
■ (IdLi wduld mil and fetch it, Mr. (iladstoiic Wdtild sa\, " I/Hik :
a\\a\',
that diiL
and as
C\l.'.
Is hi' nnt a line fellow ?
r.iit for the most of the time Mr. dladstc
);u
w
:is (.ii^L.;a^e(l in n.-m.iiks on important jjoliticd o
r rel
i;_;ioils topics
In till' \elocil'
and \ariet\- of hi> (inestidus 1 iiewr heard his likt'. He has i^reat interest in trie-,
some of them four and ti\e hnndrcd years old, and hv would stop lure and there I
:i\e nie the
Imeasjc, the liistorx',
am
d and decreiiit iree-
)aiida''id
1
their
eharacteristies ot a trii
lien
an
(1 tliert
arms m
ilints
l.onk at that sM-aiuoic
said
lie
Did \()ii find in the IIol\- I,
iiid
a sveamoie
more thriltx'
tl
ai(
lleCaUSe
I
•Id tl
le a\i'
I
I only destroy the bad to help the
am xinielini'.-
.<1."
reiiresiiited as c
lest
lan
ro\ ill'.
that >
;■ tret
II
his ]i
e spol
to tl
;e with evident pleasure of tlie fict that he
le ])eop
md continued
he\' iRAi-r abused
He asked with a j^ood deal of empl
risis,
Is tl
lere no
t (1;
increase ot divorce.
I hear thai in \diir vSonth Carolina there is no divorce at al
d dilhreiil times thrown opt:
le op])ortiiiiity."
ui.ijxr in .\nierica from th
That
I 1
then
)elle\'e, IS
the riLi'lit idea. Rciuarria<rc oii^lit t(
orbiddeii lor (h\'orce<l ])crsoiis
.■re no ])ossil)i
lilv of remarriai'e there would be no divorce.
Whi
e on DOS
itively reIi;,doiis subjects he said, " I read .somethiu.iL; in .\.ii,L;iistinc win
I was a
bov which struck
me witn ijre
th
at fon
aiK
1 I still feel its force, namelv, the a
sser-
tioii ' When the liunian race rebelled against (iod the lower nature of man as a conseqiKi
K I
rcliellcd a'-aiust the liii'lier nature.
I
isked him il
tl
le passasjc oi
th
e \ears couiirnied ^i
weakened his faiih in Chrislianity. At the pnttiii,';- of lliis ([uestion, althoii<ili wc wiir
<ruin.i; at '^wal speed, he halted on the liillside and lookins^' me in the eyes with earncstiu--
and soleiiinitv that made me ([uake as he rcjdied, " Dr. Talmf'.>;e, my only hope for tlie
world is in the l)rin.<4iii.<; of the liumaii mind into contact with the divine revelatio;!,
Xearlv ;ill the men at the toj) in our conntrv are believers in the Christian rclii;ion. Tin-
four leadin.i;- jilivsicians of luii^laiid arc devout Christian men." Then he called their
names and amoinj;- them the name of his own family physician. He went on to sa\,
" I have been fort\-sevcn years in the Cabinet of my country, and during;- those times I ha\e
heeii associated with sixty of the chief intellects of the centiir>, and I can think of but fi\e
of the si.xtv who were not jM-ofessors of tlie Christian religion, and those five were ail
res])ecters of il. Talk about the questions of the dav I There is only one ([uestion, aiMl
that is how to applv the (lospel to all circumstances and conditious. It can and will corixi l
all that is wronL,^. I am, after a 1oii,l( and busy life, more than ever confirmed in my laiili
in Christianity."
" Have vou an\- of the terrible a,s.,niosticisin in America? I am ,i;lad that none of iii\
children are afflicted with it."
So the conversation went oil. !>efore reacliin,;,^ the castle Mr. (iladstone mule a remark
which led me to ask him if he did not think that soiiieliims people had a jxior reli;^ioii ^r
no religion at all in tiieir heads and yet had a i^ood reli!.;ion in their hearts, and. he replinl:
" I have no doubt of it, and I can t^ive you an illustration. Lord Xa]iler was liuried yesh i-
(lav at St. Paul's Cathedral." I said, " Vcs, I was ])resenl at the obsetpiics." "Well," s.iid
Mr. (iladslone, " aftei the war in Africa was over Lord X;q)ier was here for a few days .!t
the invitation of Mrs. '.iladstone and myself and we were walkiii.Li' in this ver\- ]dace win re
we are now walkinj"^ and Lord Napier j.'nve nic this remarkable incident. He said : ' Wh- n
we were about to leave .\frica we had a soldier witli a broken le,t; aiu' ^-e did not kn^ w
what to do with him. He was too sick to take alonj>- with us, and we did not like to le.i\e
1 it and linrl it I'l'
111
1<1
sa\ ,
I.
liiiK' Mr. ('
ailslo
In Uk- \i.kicil'
t inUir>l ill Iru-.
[I lull' ami lluTL' t
Lix' anil llic-iL- wn;
at that syc-anioiT,
hriflN- than that ?
as (k'str<i\ ill"' Uw-
it tiiiK's thrown npt ;,
unity."
n .\nifrica frdiii tin
liNiircf at all. Th:!!,
i\'iii\'(.'(l ])crs(ins. 1:
4' in Aunuslinf wIkii
x^, nainc'U', the asscr-
nan as a consccinfiin
K' years confinncd (ir
n, alth(iii>ih we wen-
.•\LS with cariKstiK-^
on
ly hoi
)e lor t!
lixiii
c WW
ic (
istiaii relitiioii
lal
lo;
Th
K-n
Ir- called tl
He went on to sa\,
!<;• those limes I lia\ t
can think of bnt ti\L
tl
lose
fi
\c were aii
Illy one ([uestion, ai il
t can and will conn i
onfirnied in niv faiih
d that 'loiie ol' II
stone made a remark
lad a poor rclitj^ioii nr
earts, and he replinl :
ler was i)une(l \esli i
" Well,
for a few da\ •
sinil
nies.
lere
this very ]>lace wlu w
t. He said
W
;uK
I'e (lu
1 not ki
did not like to le t\e
44«
THIv HARTH (HRDLED.
liitn niiioniL; liail);!!'!;!!!-^. Sn I said : " Fetch him aloii.^; aiixlunv; iKlttr lia\e him die on
thi' way than leave iiim amoiM^ tlifsi- sava.i^cs." We look iiim part of the way, hut the
jjoor man was so ver\ ill we could uot take him au\ further. .So I went to a womau, who,
though a barbarian, was distiii.ytiished for her kindness, and 1 said to her : "We have with
us a soldier with a broken le.ij and we must leave him, and will yon take care of him," ant'
1 offered her ten times as ninch money as you would have su]iposed, hopinji; by excess of
pa\' to secure for him threat kindness. And what do you suppose she said to me? She
.said : " Xo ! 1 will not take care of this sick .soldier for the nione\- you offer me. I have
no need of the nionev . My father and mother have a comfortable tent, and I have a j^ood
tent, and win- should I take the monex . I will not take care of the soldier for the money,
but if \()U will leave him here I will take care of him for llic sahr oj llic IiK'c of ( ioif ' '
Mr. C.ladstone said to me: " Do you not think that was relijifiou ?" I said : " Yes! that is
j.(ood enou<^h religion for me."
Speakini^^ of his new crusade for home rule, he said : " It seems the dispensation
«>f(iod that I should be in this battle. It is not to ni\- taste. I never had any option
111 the matter. I dislike contest, but I could not decline this controversy without dis-
•rrace. When Ireland showed herself ready to adopt a ri5.iliteous constitution, and do
her full dutv, I hesitated uot an hour." When I rallied him on his siieech two ni<,dUs
before at Chester, when he said the increase of the American Xavy mi.Ljht make im-
perative the increase of the Hritish Xavv, he said; "Oh, Americans like to hear the
plain truth. The fact is that the tie between these two nations will become closer
and clo.ser."
When I protested that on that cold day he had not wrapped himself in thicker
apparel, he havin<f notliin<,f on him more than would be proper for a warm room,
except a thin cape reachinjj to the elbows, he replied, " I need nothinj^ more on me.
I must keep my Icjjs free."
Bv tliis time we had reached the back door of his castle, and we entered, and
he called his s'-rvant to brinj; me tea and a bountiful supply for an uppetitc
sharpened by that which had been not so much a walk as a run throu},di Ha-
warden. After refreshment he took me into his librar\ containinj; such wealth of
bt)oks as few individuals have ever known, and arranged by a method invented by
himself. He showed me literary works which were presented him by Americans,
and a ])ortfolio of pictures presented by an American. He .said, "Outside of America
there is no one who is bound to love it more than I do. Yon see I cannot move
outside of the evidences of her kindness." He then jjjave me some books and
pam])hlets by himself, and his translation of "Jesus, Lover of My Soul," into the
Oreek lanj^niaiie. Mrs. (iladstone had been obliged to leave the house for some
en<rai^rement before our return, l.nit she left her rej^ards and throu(^h her servant
asked me to leave my auto<^raph. Mr. (iladstone rummaj^ed the rooms for a plio-
toijraph of her, and, not findinji; it, took me to a room containino; a beautiful piece
of sculpture representing; Mrs. Gladstone at about twenty-two years of ao;e. He said,
"She is only two years younj^er than I, but in complete health and vij^or."
The time for m\- departure arrived. I must the next day take steamer for America.
WHien I expressed to Mr. Gladstone the wish that he mi^dit come to America and
told him the reception he would receive from all classes, he said, " I am too old now."
To m\- remark, " You have often crossed the EngHsli Channel, and that is worse than
the Atlantic," he replied, ''Oh, I am not afraid of the ocean." He followed me to the
XV lia\e Iiiiii (lit on
of tlu' way, hut the
lit to a woman, wlio,
icr : " We have witli
■CL' care of him," dur
hopinj^ hy excess of
e said to me? She
an offer nie. I have
,t, and I have a j^ood
)l(lier lor the montv,
///>■ love of Codr ' '
said : " Yes ! that is
ms the dispensation
L'ver had any option
roversy without dis-
:onstitution, and do
s s])eech two nij^iits
•\ mi<4lit make im-
ns like to hear tlio
will become closer
1 himself in thicker
for a warm room,
othinj> more on me.
md we entered, and
ply for an uppetitc
run throuj^h Ha-
inj; such wealth of
method invented by
him by Americans,
'Outside of America
I see I cannot move
e some books and
My Soul," into the
the house for some
throuirh her servant
e rooms for a pho-
ng a beautiful piece
rs of aj^e. He said,
md vigor."
steamer for America,
rie to America and
" I am too old now."
id that is worse than
■ followed me to the
THK WORLD AS SKlvX TO-DAY.
449
door bareheaded, his v „ue hair llowin- i„ the wind I • ,•
take cold. Standing there on the dooi^t n • '"'"""^^ '"■' ^"'""'"^^ '^'-^^ '"^
of my highapprecilition of un ' ^ " J^ :: ' l^^^''-^ r;'^ >'- — 'tn"
increasing prosperitv, and tint I w.fH '"" '""'""- ''"' '^ ^■^•^''v
warn,est adlnir tionr ex ^ s io:^ Uh'" "" T ■'' '■"^"^>- ^^■'^'' =' '--^ "^
to .sav"(iood-byc" ^•^P'"^-''''"-"'' "' I^nuluess not cios.ng until we were con.pcllcd
oiad;;:n^: St. t:^'^ ij'ij!^^ :^ -^:- f • -- - ^r.
wonderful men of this centnr>, but of ail time. "^^ ^' ""' "' ^''^ '"•"'
JOHN UrsKI.V.
I say^hLT:::: >rR:"kir^v;:z::ir^'' 'r' '--^ '-^'^^ •-'^■^ "-^--"<' ^vheu
tincrowued. He has done n"ore for dc- " "'"'" ^'^"' "'>' ""■^■'- "'-'' ^'-^vned or
vated literature than anv man of the
century. When I was in England at
other times Mr. Ruskiii was always ab-
sent or .sick, but this time I found him
I was visiting the Lake districts of Kng-
land, the enchanted ground trodden In-
Wordsworth and Walter Scott and Cole-
ridge and Mrs. Hemans.
I visited the house where Christopher
North (l'rofes,sor Wilson) spent his sum-
mers. I went into the room where De
Qnincy ate opium and wrote for all the
world. I talked with people who remem-
bered Wordsworth and saw Christopher
North row across Windemere and take
herculean exercise among the hills. But
J. "••<-. '•"'- "111-1. Dili
one afternoon I took a ride that will be
forever memorable. I .said, " Drive out
to Mr. Ruskin's place," which was some
cMght miles away. The landlord from
whom I got the convevauce said, " You
will not be able to see Mr. Ruskiu. No
one .sees him or has seen him for vears."
Well, I have a way of keeping on when I
start After an hour and a lialf of a
delightful ride, we entered the gates of
Mr. Ruskin's home. The door of the Joh.n- ri-skin, as i saw him
vuie-covered, picturesque house was open and I stood in the Inllwav H r
to a .servant I .said I wished to spp at,- t?. i • T Jiallwa>. Handing mv card
andheneversee.sa„yrne' nlamii^,^;^^ The reply was, "Mr. Ruskin is not in,
tl>e road. I said to tl'e drivef ' r I '^', ^"'^- """^ '^'' ''''"'"' ^^^^^ ^^'^"^ ^'own
im to the druer, Do yon know Mr. Ruskin when you see him ^" " Yes "
450
THE I'ARTH (URDLHD.
: *tt
fi
\n
s-ii.l hv - l.ul I liavo n..t slui liiiii Inr vcars." Wc rode on a few moments xvlicn tlie
driver cried out to me, " There he comes now." In a minute we liad Arrived to wlure
Mr Ruskin was walking toward us. I rliKhted and lie Kveeted me with a ciuiet manner
and a .unial smile, lie looked like a ^rcat man worn ..ut. Heard full and tangled. .Soil
hat (Iniwn, down over his forehead. SiRUs- of physieal weakness with dcterminatu.n not
to shrw it His valet walked beside Inm ready to liel]) or direct Ins steps. Me deprecated
aiiv remarks appreciator^ of his wondrous services. He had the appearance of one whose
work is completeU done and is waiting for th.e time to start homeward. He ,s in appear-
ance more like nivself than anv person I ever saw, and if I should live to his age the like-
ucss will be complete.' I could easilv understand how the first time I saw Dr. John H.own
the Edinboro assayist, he greeted me with the exclamation, " There comes my liiend John
Ruskin." . , , , t -i. i
R-cent reports of Mr. Ruskin's physical decadence have probably been written bs
people who have not seen him, an.l have guessed the worst. But I do not think he will
ever write another paragraph, or receive another call, until there conies to linn the call ol
world-transferrence. He is not .so old by ten years as some eminent hnglishmen who a.v
still inactive lite, their tongue and pen as powerful in the eighties as in the forties. \ et
he has written a whole librarv and endured his full share of misrepresentation. But he is
throu-h, magnificentlv through. He will continue to s. -inter along the Knghsh lanes vevx
siowlv his valet bv his side, for a vear or two and then will fold his hands for the lastsleej^
Then the whole world will wake up to speak words of gratitude and praise which it denicl
him all through the vears in which he was laboriously writing " Modern Painters, ' ll.e
Seven Lampsof Architecture," " The Stones of Venice," and "The l^thics of the Dust
We cannot imagine what the world's literature would have been if Thoma.s Carlyle ami
Tohn Ruskin had never entered it. The daj or night a man intelligently meets Mr
Ruskin's works starts a new era in his liistor>. The selections from his v.-ntings w nch
picked up in Wvnkoop's store, Syracuse, N. Y., in the early years of my mini.stry I shall
liever forge u I read that book under the trees, the best place to rer.d it. He was the first
competent interpreter of the language of leaves, of clouds, of rivers, of lakes, of seas. He
did lor the hitherto untranslated hieroglyphics of the natural world what Champollioii dul
for HgNptian hieroglvphics. Blessed the day when I read the first chapter of John Ruskin ^
books • Blessed the' beautiful dav when he took niN- hand and put upon me his benediction .
oiiicnls wlicii till"
I irrivcd to wlicrt.'
til a ((iiic't uiaiiiai
nd tangled. Suit
dctcnuitialioii iidt
IS. He (lei)recaUil
ance of one whose
He is in aiipeav-
1) his a^c the like-
\ Dr. John liiown
les my friend Jul in
y been written 1)\
not think he will
to him the eall of
nj:;lishmen who are
II the forties. Vet
itation. Hnt he is
English lanes very
Is for the lastsleen.
ise which it denied
rn Painters," " The
thics of the Dust."
homas Carlyle and
igently meets Mr.
is v-ritings which I
my ministry I shall
;. He was the first
■ lakes, of ':.eas. He
at Chanipollion did
er of John RuskinV
me his benediction !
eeiiliiries a<4(>,
Within si.rhl of
CHAi''n-:u xiA'i.
SCOTLAND.
KVKN o'clock in the niorniii-, al a window lookinj,' out upon ihf River Tay,
which is the Rhine of vScotlan 1. When the Romans, main
first eau>j;ht sij^jit of it they exclaimed : " /urr lilhr ! '
scenery which Walter Scott made immortal in his " Kair Maid of I'crth."
The heather running up the hills to join the morning cloud of tin.' sanif eolor, .s,) that yciii
can hardly tell which is heatlar, and which is cloud, beauty terrestrial and celestial,
intertwined, interlocked, interspuii, intermarried. The incen.se of a gentlemairs ganku'
burning toward heaven in the fires of the fresh risen sun. Ivy on the old walls ; roe^keries
dashed with waterfall, and fringed with ferns ; hawthorn hedges which halt the eye only
long enougli to admire before it leaps over. At the end of each path a statelv vew, triuiuKd
up to the point like a spear, standing .sentinel. The kennels under thi; wall vawniug with
terriers and fox-hounds.
"Two (l(>),',s of hlMik vSt. Iluburt's breed,
l'nin;il(:li(.(l for couruKf, brcalh ami speed."
The glades, the farmsteads, tiie cop.ses, the .soft plush of the grass, which has reveled
in two months of uninterrupted moisture. Seated in an arm-chair that an ancient king
might in vain have wished for, writing on a table that fairlv writhes with serpents and
dragons and gorgons done in mahogany. What a time and place to take pen and paper for
communication with my American readers !
Before I forget it I must tell you how I baptized a vScotch babv down in the centre of
England. It was about ten o'clock at night, at the elo.se of a service, and in the private
parlor of a hotel, that a rap was heard at the door. Word came in that a voung man was
there desiring me to officiate at a baptism. We thought that there must be some mistake
about it, and so delayed making our appearance.
About five minutes before the starting of the rail train we came to the door of the private
parlor and confronted a young man in a high state of excitement. He said that he had
come all the way from Scotland to have ns baptize his child. We told him the thing was
impossible for the train would go in five minutes. But this onlv made the man more
intense. So we said, " Where is the baby } We have no time to wait." The voung man
rushed down stairs, and returned with the mother and child. As .she unrolled the boy from
her plaid there came to sight the prophecy of a genuine Roderick Dhu. We wanted an
hour to baptize a boy like that.
Scotch all over ! What cheek bones and what a fist. Give him plenty of porridge
and the air of Loch Vennachar, and what a man he will make— Chief ol Clan Alpine I I
asked the mother what she was going to call him, and she .said " Douglass ! " What a name !
Suggestive of victory, defeat, warrior blades, and gates of Stirling Castle !
" Krc DoiiKlasse.s to mill driven
Were exiled from their native Heaven ! "
But it was no time to indulge in Scottish reminiscences. If that infant Highlander
was to be baptized by us it must be within the next sixty seconds. We had the faUier and
(451)
mrm
45-
Till'; ICAkTII CIKDU'I).
tlu UK.tlicr, and tlic hahy ami tlu' iiiiiiisUr, Iml \u> wait. i I \\'<.- liastily >camu'(l all tlicvaxs
ainU'iips ill till' rodiii. 'I'luri' \va> no liquid in all llif placi' save the cm-oa left ovir Ikjim
our (.\t.iiiii,L; iii)a>l. 'I'lial would iml do. \Vf liavf known pioplc .so stupid and dull and
bilious all tlK-ii li\is \.iu nii-lil iiua-iiu- llu \ had bixu hapti/Atl in I'oi'oa. Hut \\i- would
haw no part in >ucli a ciivnioin .
"Cut SOUK' water in a sri'cmd !'" wi- diinaiidtd, Imoui llu' next room llii' anxious latlui
<.)■; Ill' .]liHN KNOX, I'DIMU'KCII.
rctunK'd in a mouunt, l)rin<;in<r a glass of it, clear, bri^dU water, fit to christen a Douj,dass,
opaline as thou-li just dipped by Rob Rov from Loch Katrine. " Douglassj " we called
him as the water Hashed upon the lad's forehead quick and bri<i;ht as the j^ioani of Fitz-
Tames ' 1)1ade at Invcrlochy. We had no tiuK for making' out a formal certificate, but only
the words, '' Baptism, July 2ist," the name of Douglass, and our own. As we darted for the
•aiiiu'd nil tlic vast's
ii'iKi U'fl ovir Ik mi
lipid and dull and
la. Unt wi.' wiiiilil
1 till' anxious father
*».'J
<ft^
.^?:^'
hristen a Doujjlass,
iglass ! " we callfd
; the f^jlcam of Fitz-
:ertificale, but oiil\'
■\.s \vc darted for the
THK WORLD AS SI<:i:x TO-DAY.
■153
cars the yoniiK man snhmcrKc.d ns with thanks, and pnl in onr han.K as a l.aptismai .dft
th uV '^' ;^'^' ^'f ->■•-•' ^1- ^'"n..ns Scotchman who pivadud himldf ^ ,:; i
;n;;;:^^im:::;:h:;^;::rhnr- '- -' -'"^' -""^ "- -^" '--••- ^•'- ^.^ a
.n,^': — d'lhat tiu'': ''' ""^' " "^' "^'■::!:" ^^'^^ ""^^r"••"■ "'^' ^^'^" -"^'^ '"^^
from tin.' smiliiijr Scotcii
mother's i)Iaid may have tlie
conraj,re of a John Knox.
the romance of a Walter
Scott, the naturalness of
the Kttrick Sliepherd, the
self-sacrifice of a Ilii^r], Mt-.
Kail, the ph\.sical stren;,nh
of a Christopher Xortli, and
the jroodncss of a Rol)ert
McCheyne. In other words,
may he be the qnintesseiice
of all },rreat Scotchmen.
There is somcthir.jr
about the Scotcli character,
whether I meet it in New
York, or London, or Pertli,
that thrills me thronjrli and
thronj^di. Perhaps it mv
be because I li such .i
strong tide of Seoteh blood
in my own arteries. Xe\t
to my own belo\ ed country
Rive me Scotland for resi-
dence and grave. The peo-
ple are in such downright
tamest. There is such a
I'ar in their mirth, like a
tempest in "TheTrossacks."
Pake a Olasgow audience
and a speaker must have
his feet well planted on the
plaiform or he will be over-
mastered b\- the sympathv of
tile populace. Tliey are not
ashamed to cry, with their
Thev ,'^''"V''^""'' "'''•■ •''' '''''' ^"^^ ^'"•'>' "'^^'^^' "" ''^"^■"•Pt at suppression of <dee
o , down to"!r' " :""'";" ?''f''- ''•"''^^- '^ J^''^^' '"^" •-' Sco\chman-s ear^and
t rolls down to the centre oi his di.iphragm and then spreads out both wus tou-.rrl
-a and brow, until the emotion becomes vdcanic, and froin the lo^" s r on\he I^
of the head to the tip end of the nail on the l„g toe there is paroxysm of cachinnation
KNdv em KCH, \viii:ke r i'Ki:Aein:i),
mm
*ii
4^^ THE EARTH GIRDLED.
No half and half abc.ul the Scotch character. Wl.at he hates, he hates ; what he
likes he likes, An.l he lets you know it ri;,ht away. He goes in ior Lord Sahshnry
o Williani K. (Gladstone, and is altogether Ml,eral or Tory. H,s pohtics deculed Ins
veliu.n decided ; oet him ri^ht, and he is nmonificently right ; ^et hnn wrong a„d he is
w n • rong. A Scotchnmn seldom changes. Ry the time he has fairly huided on In.
^e 11 this wm-ld he has made up his mind, and lie keeps it made up I he dishkes a hdc le
n church, vou cannot smuggle it in under the name of a bass viol W e like persisteuce.
il is so short that a man cannot afford very often to change his iiimd If he I-- 't -ii
the wilderness had had a few Scotch leaders, instea.l of wandering about or forty >ea s, he
tnkl, HI three weeks, have go, to the promised land, or somewhere else ^ust as decid.Hl.
„M.MOKA., CXST..K. SCOTTTSM RKS.nKNCK OV OfKKN VICTORIA, I^ORTV-r.,rR MII.KS VK.ni AHKUnKKN.
B„l national characteristics are gradually giving way The Tweed is drymg up. 1 .
Atlantic Ocean under steam pressure is becoming a Fulton Ferry, When l asked Jo n,
Ihight if he was ever coming to America, he said : " No ; America conies to me , Bes.<ks
llnT \merican breadstuffs and American meat must have its effect on European characte,.
Ml cuefnl observers know that what men eat mightilv affects their character. He m,^-
sionarv among the Indians, a.mpelled to live on animal food gets some of the nature n
the al)ori.nnes, whether he will or not. The steamers coming to .lasgow bring gu,.
cargoes o? Ainerican meat to Scotland. The meat of animals butchered lu America .
ke,; on steamers in a cool draught e>peciallv arranged ^.r that pur,.ose, and he m..
HKuket of Scotland is being revolntioni/.ed. The Scotchman eating American beef and
American mutton aiul American venison becomes partially American.
hates ; what he
T Lord Sali.sl)my
itics decided, his
\vron<;-, and ho is
irly hmdcd on lii--
le dislikes a fiddle
s like persistence.
If the Israelites in
)r forty years, tlK\
ie iust as decided.
I'ROM AHKRI>KKN.
is dryin>r np. The
iVhen I asked John
es to me !" Besides
Hnropean character,
haracter. The mi-
me of the natnre of
ilas<;o\v l)rin>; <rrt.;it
lered in America is
q-inse, and the meit
American beef and
ni.
THE WORLD AS SKKN TO-DAY.
455
lui^dishmen on platforms and in the newspapers (kjilore the comin<>- in of .so nuieh
Ameiican breadstnffs. Hecan.se of the failnre of Kn>;lis]i crops fiir two or three \ears this
is becomin<,r more and more so. The Kn.^lishman eatinj,^ American wheal and American
rye and American corn nnist become in ])art .\mericanizcd. And liere is an elemenl of
safety which ])olitical economi.sts wonld do dwell to recoj^nize. The cereals and the meats
of one nation becoming the food of other nations, it prophesies assimilation and brother-
hood. It will be very difficnlt for American beef to fij^jhl American l)eef, and American
mntton to fij^ht American mntton, and American corn to fi^ht American corn, and thon<^li
it max- bcfonnd on the opposite side of the Atlantic. The world is <,"-radnally siltin.t; down at
one table, and the bread will be made of Micliigan wheat, and it will be cnt with Sheffield
knives. The rice will be
bron<>;ht from Carolina
swamps, and cooked with
Newcastle coal, and .set on
the table in Burslem i)ot-
tery, while the air comes
thronj>h the window nphol-
stered with Nottingham
lace. And Italy will pro-
vide the raisins, and Brazil
the nnts. and all nations
add their part to the nni-
\-ersal festivity. What a
time of accord when all the
world I)reakfasts and dines
and snps together.
What is that neighing
of honses, and bleating of
siieep, and barking of dogs
now coming to my ears?
It is the Highland Show.
The best animals of Scot-
land are in convention a
little distance away. Karls
and marqnises yesterdav
judged between them. Bet-
ter keep your American
cattle, horses, and sheep, and
dogs at home, nnlcss yon want them cast into the shade. What a spectacle! I snppose
tiie.se are the kind of cattle and horses that made np the chief stock in Paradise before tliev
iiad been abused of the wicked centnries.
I^xamine those which have won distinction and a ril)!)on. Rear Admiral, Knuker-
bocker, Prince Alfred and Harold, from Berwick-on-Tweed, among the .shorthorns. Liddes-
daleand Lord Walter among the Ciallowavs ; The Monarch among the polled Angus cattle ;
Morning Star, King Cartluis and Scottish Chief among the .\vrsliire.s. This is the poetry
of beef; the "Iliad," the "Odyssey," the " I'aradi>e Regained" ..f cattledoui.
Pass on to the horses, and see Coiuineror, and Lnck's .Ml, and Star of the West.
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456
thp: ?:arth girdled.
St. John saw in vision white horses, and l)a\ horses, and black horses, and one niio;ht
think tiiat some of these in tlie Hi<;hUuid vShow had broken ont of the paitnre-fields of
heaven. One of these nii<,dit well have stood for Job's photograph, "his neck clothed with
thnnder." What hnnters and roadsters.
I'ass on to the sheep and .see the wonderfnl specimens of Cheviots and Dinmonts, .some
of them .so covered with wealthy fleece they can hardly see ont, nature having " pulled the
wool over their eyes."
Pass on and stir up these fowls, and hear them crow and cackle and chick. Turkey
gobblers, with unbounded resources of strut, and ducks, of unlimited quack, and bantams,
full of small fight, and Cochin-Chinas, and Hrahmapootras, and Hamburgs, and Dorkings,
suggesting the grand possibilities of the world's farmyard.
And dogs ! I cannot stop to describe the bewitching beauty of the English and Gordon
setters, and Dalmatians
and retrievers, and
pointers, and Scotch
terriers, Skye and rat,
and that beautiful joke
of a dog — the English
pug — v/hich I can
never see without
bursting into laughter,
and the collies, now
beccniing the fashion-
able dogs of Europe,
their heads patted by
lords and ladies. Ht)w
I would like to bring
to America a whole
kennel of them. St.
John, in Revelations,
put the dogs on the
outside of the gate of
heaven, saying: "With-
out are dogs 1 " If he
cotdd have seen these
of the Highland Show he would have invited them in. I think they might at least lie
down under the king's table.
ROSS CASTI.K, NKAR HAI,SAKROCH, SCOTLAND, AND IRISH JAVNTINf. CAR.
We have sailed on the Rhine, the Thames, the Hudson, the St. John, but cut out of all the
other days of our life for entrancement is this day when on the steamer Star o' Gowrie, we sail
the Tay. Somewhat may depend on onr especial mood. We went on board the Scotch
river at Dundee. We had passed the night and previous day in one of tho.se castles of
beautv, a Scotch gentleman's home, a place that led us to ask the owner, as we stood in the
doorwa^■ : ,
"Do you suppo.se heaven will be nuich brighter than this?"
s, and one niij>;ht
pasture-fields of
eck clothed with
Dinnionts, some
;ing " pulled the
I cluck. Turkey
:k, and bantams,
^s, and Dorkings,
glish and Gordon
5, and r3alniatians
retrievers, and
;rs, and Scotch
rs, Skye and rat,
lat beautiful joke
log — the English
-v^hich I can
r see without
ng into laughter,
the collies, now
ling the fashion-
dogs of Europe,
heads patted by
and ladies. How
lid like to bring
nierica a whole
?1 of them. St.
in Revelations,
he dogs on the
ie of the gate of
?n, saying: "With-
.re dogs ! " If he
have seen these
night at least lie
,t cut out of all the
o' Gowrie, we sail
board the Scotch
F those castles of
as we stood in the
THE WORLD AS SEEN TO-DAY. 437
He said, " Yes ! for tliere will be no sorrow there."
Then we thought can it be possible that sorrow ever looked out of these windows
commanding such landscape, or ever set foot amid these roval flower-beds, or rode up this
kingly carriage way? We had visited the church of Robert Murrav McChevne stood in
his piilpit, hoping to get some of his inspiration, halted bv his grave, and thought how
from that comparatively small church (there are twentv larger churches in New York and
Brooklyn) there has gone out a celestial spell upon all Christendom. 1 said to some of th'ose
who knew him well :
" Was he really as good as the books sav he was ? "
_ The unanimous answer was, " Yes, yes.'' His was goodness set to music, and twined
into rhythm.
The goodness of some people is rough aiul spiked, and we wish thc^• were less oood
and more genial. But McChe>ne grew pleasant m proporti<.n as he grew holy And there
are his old church
and his unpreten-
tious grave a charin
for the centuries.
We had also
t:;'~>^ecl under the
;t. where Wishart
::. od and preached
to the people out-
side the wall during
the plague, and from
the te.xt, " He sent
his word and healed
them ;" an assassin
with dagger drawn
waiting to stab him
when he came down,
the murderous in-
tention defeated by
Wishart's putting
HOI.VROOI) CASTI.K, SCOTLAND.
his hand on his shoulder affectionately ; and when the e.xcited populace rushed on to
destroy the assassin, were hindered by Wishart's defence of the desperado, as the clergvinaii
said, " He who slays this man will first have to slay me." We have been at the table' with
and heard the post-prandial talk of Pundee's clergvinen, bankers, and literati. We have
been in the parlors with the beautiful women of Scotland— the high color of the cheek
the purity of their complexion, the elegance of their manners, the briiliancv of their repar-
tee, and the religious fervor of their conversation making up an attractiveness peculiar
to their nationality. There are no brighter homes on earth than in Scotland.
In the mood which all these scenes had induced we stepped on board the Star o' Gowrie
for a sail on the Tay. Whether we did not pay it sufficient deference bv tipping our hat
to It as we started, or what was the reason, we will not guess : but the wind lifted our hat
for us, and away it went into the Tay, never to be recovered, and would ha\e left us in an
awkward plight, for people only laugh at a man who has lost liis hat, but we happened to
have a surplus, and so were immediately refitted.
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THK KARTH GIRDLKD.
Si
I
Mi
\Vc ])asse(l mulcr tlie Tav r.ii(l<;v, lIic lon<,vcsl l)ri(l<;v across :; tidal river in the world ;
but the whole heaven thaL day was an arch Uridine, buttressed with broken storm cloud,
mighty eu^Hi-h to let all the annies of Heaven cross over, and indeed it seemed as if
thcA- were crossin.D -iilunies of cloud, and wheels of cloud, and horses of cloud, troop after
troop, battalion afi r battalion.
There are some da\s when the heavens seem to turn out on jjarade. I'.ut there is no
danger that this sns])ensi(,n-l)ridge from hori/.on to horizon \vili break, for if here and there
a crvstal should shiver under celestial foot, the cavalcades are wiu,<;ed, and the fracliue of
sapi)hire would be reixured by one stroke of the trowel of sunshine.
The banks of the Tav seem clad with a sui)ernatural richness. The verdm-e and
KOHr.RT IirUNS' eilTTAC.i:, NF.AK AV*. nCOTLAND.
foliage seem to have dripped off heights celestial. The hills on cither side run down to
l)a\- obeisance to the iiueenh river, and then run up to the sky to reiiort they have done so.
.■\l)beys and castles stand on either shore, telling of the devotions and the courage of dead
centuries. If \(>u had time to stoj) and mount one of the casements of IClcho Castle, that
old ruin on the south, bank of the Tay. and should call the roll of the heroes departed, Hruce
and Wallace, and Thomas de Longueville, calling loud enough, you might in the echoes
hear the neighing of the war chargers, the clash of claymores, and the battle cry of Clan
Cliatlan resijonded to by Clan Inliele, and all the other clans,
lidld ami tnic
111 lllllllu t IlllU'."
jr ill till.' Wnlld ;
.■n storm cloud,
it seemed as if
loiul, trot)]) alter
Uiit tliere is no
f here and there
the fracture of
he verdure and
side run down to
ley have done so.
■ coura}>e of dead
[<:icho Castle, that
■s departed, Ihuce
i^ht in tile eclioes
battle cry of Clan
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459
0„ this SKle the lay is the ruin of Un.lore-s Ahhcv, with its orcat stoiu- coffins
about the contents of winch .eneratious have been sunnisin,, and about which I,.an Sf "
remarke,! one day to a Irieud-that, cousideriii, the sixe of the coffins, the people oca pi ,
them must have been l>road churchmen. ^ • "
And yonder is the ruin of lialuabrei ch Castle. A IVw stra^.lint; stones onlv tell Mie
nnrxi-: casti.k and c.m.i.ows tri;r.
I).i.MR. ensile, Sc„Un,„l, is the most majestic leu.lal ,u.K,ins i„ ,-„e.t l!ril;,i.,, sou years „1.1.
place which once was the retreat of the midday. Xear bv it the l)attlefield of IJIack
Ironsule, and tlie stream where Wallace and his thirsty men Annul rcfrcslinieiit.
" I)r;iiik first liimse-lf. and said in sobiT iiiooil,
Tin- wine of Fraiu-f I ni-'ur tlu)n.i,dU half so t^ood.' "
Rnt sav some : " We iiave no interest in these oM castles ami abl)evs." That dis,ih,vs
vonrown ignorance. We notice that peopk- who liave n(. iuteiot in such places are
uuaccpunnted wUli historv, and no wonder to them Kenilworth Castle is of less interest
than a fallen down sinoke-hcn.se. Alas for those who feel no thrill amid these scenes of
■pp
460
THE ?:arth girdled.
decayed arcliitectnre! Siicli ruins are the places where the past ages come and sit beside
ns, show ns their Icalliern doublet, bend their keen-tempered blade, sing us the old songs,
and halting the centuries in their solemn march, bid them turn round and for a little while
march the other wa\-.
We are apt to think, while looking upon these old ruins of barbaric times, how much
the world has advanced. Yes, but not in all things for the better. Is our century which
drops a bomlishell able to kill twenty men any better than the century with falchion that
killed one man? .\re Waterloo and Sedan with their tens of thousands of slain better than
the North Inch at Perth, ne; r which we are now landing in this Scotch afternoon, the North
Inch where tliirty men of one clan and thirty men of another clan, picked from their nation
as champions, fought until all were slain, or wounded, or dishonored, or drowned in the Tay ?
MHI.ROSK AHHKY, SCOTI.ANn, KOCNDHD BY OAVin I., A . D
Is murder on an immense scale better than murder on a small scale? Was Napoleon
despoiling nations so much better than Robin Hood despoiling a wayfarer? Is Sin Brobdig-
nagian more admirable than Sin Lilliputian? Is Springfield Armory better in God's sight
than Balnabreich Castle ? But before we get the questions answered our steamer touches
the wharf, and we disembark with a farewell to the beautiful Tay, which seems to answe;.
as we part :
"Mfii may come aiul men may go,
Rut I go on forever,
I go on forever,
I go on forever."
*
We Republicans and Democrats in America have been brought up on the theory that
the aristocracy of Kngland and Scotland live a fictitious and stilted life in aim, and
THK WORLD AS vSKEX TO-DAY.
461
ne and sit beside
us the old songs,
for a little while
times, how much
ir century which
nth falchion that
f slain better than
rnoon, the North
from their nation
,vned in the Tay ?
? Was Napoleon
* Is Sin Brobdig-
ter in God's sight
• steamer touches
seems to answe:,
n the theory that
life in aim, and
meamngless. My own ideas on the subject liavc I)ccn recoustrucled l)v that whicli I luue
seen. There are in the world tiiree kinds of aristocracy— the aristocracy of ucaltli, the aiis-
tocracy ol bnlh, the aristocracy of goodness. The last will yet conic t..' tlic ascendency and
men will be judged, not according to the numl)er of dollars tiiey hayc galhercd. nor the fame
of their ancestors, lint if we must clioose between the aristocracy of ^veaIth and [\w aris-
(■ racy of birth, we choose the latter. We find that those who haVe been born to hi-h i.om-
l ion wear their honors with more case and less ostentation than those who come suddenly
upon distinguished place.
The man with a stal)le of fifty horses and a kennel of fifty hounds may be as humble
as the man who goes afoot and nas no dog to follow him. So far as we haye .seen tlic
homes and habits of the aristocracy of Kugland, we find them plain in their manners
lughly cultured as to their niiuds, and many of them intensely Christian in their feeliucs
'1 liere is more strut and pre-
tension of manner in many an
American constable, or alder-
man, or legislator, tlian you
will find in the halls and
castles of the lords and earls
of rCngland. One great rca-
.son for this is tliat a man l)orn
to great position iu Great
I>ntain is not afraid of losing
it. He got it irom his father,
and his father from his grand-
father, and after the present
occupant is done with his
estate, his child will get it
and then his grandchild and
.so on perpetually. It is the
man who has had distin-
guished place only two or ™" "'•" ^-ixios'Ty sitoi
three years and may lose it to-morrow, who is especially anxious to impress \<)u with
his exaltation. His reign is so short he wants to make the most of it.
Eyen the men who conic up from the masses in Knglaud to political power are more
like to keep it than in America, for the member of the House of Commons may represent
any part of England that desires to coini)liment his .seryices instead of being compelled to
contest with twenty small men in his own district, as in America. It made no difference
to John Bright whether Birmingham wanted to send him to Parliament or not. There
were plenty of counties that did want to send him. Some of the most unpretentious men
of England are the most highly honored, (iladstone is not afraid of losing his honors
while with coat off he .swings his axe against the forest trees at Hawarden, near
Chester.
In a picnic of working people assembled on his lawn one summer day, Mr. Gladstone,
while making a little speech, .-^aid :
"We are very proud of our trees and are therefore getting anxious as the beech has
already .diowii symptoms of decay. We set great store by our trees."
"Why, then," shouted one of his rough hearers, "do you cut them down as von do?"
462
THE EARTH GIRDLED.
" W'c cut down tliat we may improve. We remove rottenncs.s that we may restore
liealtli by lettiiijr in air and lislit. .\s a jfood Liberal yon onglit to understand that."
So Mr. (ihidstone, thouyii hoIdin<j the stronj^est political pen in England, is easily
acces.sible, and is not afraid of being contaminated by contact with inferiors.
A citizen of Rochdale, in reply to my question about Mr. Hright, said :
"We do not know Mr. Hright ! He \s,Jo/in Hright."
Indeed, from my delightful interview with that eloquent and magnetic Knglishman I
could understand this familiarity with his name. His genial and transcendent nature looked
at yon through the blue eyes, and spoke from the fine head, white as the blo.ssoms of the
almond tree, and without any reserve putting hiuiself into familiar conversation on all the
great questions of the day, you easily saw how, while the masses .shouted at his appearance
on the platform, the Queen of Kngland sent word that when he approached her he might,
according to his Quaker habits and belief, keep his hat on.
This nnostentation, seen among those who have done the r own climbing, is true .ilso
of those who are at the top without climbing at all.
The Manjuis of Townshend, who presided at our lecture at the Crystal Palace, has
the simplicitN of a child, and meeting him among other men you would not suspect either
his wealth or his honors.
The Ivirl of Shaftesbur\- was like a good old grandfather from whom it reqrdres no art
to evoke either a tear or a laugh.
The family of Lord Cairns, the highest legal authority in luigland, was like any other
Christian home which has high art and culture to adorn it.
.■\mong the pleasantest and most unaiTecled of people are duchesses and "right honor-
able " ladies. The most completely gospelized man we met was the Karl of Kintore.
Seated at his table he said : " Do not forget our journey next Sabbath night."
It was useless, to tell ns not to forget that which we had so ardently anticipated. Al
six o'clock his lordship called at the Westminster Palace Hotel, not with carriage, for we
were going where it was best for us to go afoot. With his servant to carry his coat and
Hible and psalm-book we sauntered forth. We were out to .see some of the evening and
midnight charities of London. First of all we went into the charity lodging-houses of
London, the places where outcast inon who would otherwise have to lodge on the banks of
the Thames or under the arch lodges may come in and find gratuitous shelter. These
men, as we went in, sat around in all stages of poverty and wretchedness. As soon as the
earl entered they all knew him. With some he .shook hands, which in some cases was a
big undertaking. It is pleasant to shake hands with the clean, but a trial to .shake hands
with the untidy. Lord Kintore did not stop to see whether these men had attended to
proper ablution. They were in sin and trouble, and needed help, and that was enough to
invoke all his sympathies. He addressed them as "gentlemen " in a short religious address
and promised them a treat "about Christmas," telling them how many pounds he would
send ; and accommodating himself to their capacity, he said " it would be a regidar blow
out."
He told me that he had no faith in trying to do their souls good unless he sympathized
practically with their physical necessities. His address was earnest, helpful and looked
toward two worlds — tliis and the next. In midsummer a large fire was burning in the grate.
Turning to these forlorn wretches. Lord Kintore .said : " That is a splendid fire. I don't
believe they have a better fire than that in Hnckingham Palace."
From this charity lodging-house, which the inmates call the " Ho.ise of Lords," we
lat we may restore
rstaiul tliat."
Kngland, is easily
ors.
id:
;tic Enfjlishinan I
ident nature looked
le blossoms of tiio
ersation on all the
i at his appearand-
led her he might,
nbing, is tnie also
Crystal Palace, has
not suspect either
;i it rtqiiires no art
was like any other
and "right honor-
? Earl of Kintore.
ght."
ly anticipated. At
:li carriage, for we
carry his coat ami
f the evening and
lodging-houses of
e on the banks of
HIS shelter. These
>. As soon as the
some cases was a
rial to shake hands
11 had attended to
hat was enough to
irt religions address
y pounds he would
be a regular blou
ess he sympathized
lelpful and looked
liming in the grate,
endid fire. I don't
j.ise of Lords," wc
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464
TIIK KARTH GIRDLKD.
*ii
Weill to one of inferior (jiialitx , wliieii the iiiiiiates call the " House of Coiniiions."
There were diirerent j^rades of s(iualor, dilTerent degrees of rags, diflereiit stages of
iiialodor.
I'lom there we went to missions, and outdoor meetings, and benevolent rooms, where
coffee and ehoeoiale are erowding out ale and spirits. Ready w ilh prayer and exhortation
himself, his lordship expeeted everybody with him to be ready, and although he had
promised to do the talking himself, he had a sudden and irresistible way of tumbling others
into religions addresses ; so that, at the close of tiiis Sunday, which we had set apart for
entire (juiet, w" found we had made five addresses.
Hut it was one o( the most refreshing and instructive days of all our lives. As we
parted that night on the streets of London, 1 felt I had been with one of the best men of
the age.
What a grand thing, when the men at the top are willing for Christ's sake to stoop to
[hose at the bottom.
May this sort of aris-
tocracy become uni-
versal and perpetual !
While the Duke
of Ikaufort is shoot-
ing pheasants in the
copse at Badminton,
and is distinguished
for Southdown
sheep, and a cabinet
set with gems that
cost ^,'50,000, and an
estate of incalculable
value, most men will
have more admira-
tion for such dukes
and lords and noble-
men as are celebrated
for what they are
doing for the better-
ment of the world's
condition. Lord
Congleton, missionary to Bagdad before he got his title, but afterward making himself fell
as Oriental scholar and religious teacher ; Lord Cavan, the stirring evangelist ; Lord Radstock,
not ashamed to carry tiie gospel to the Russian nobility, and Lord Kintore who was alwa\ s
ready to take platform or pulpit, when there was an\ thing good to be done, or walk through
the haunts of destitution and crime, for temporal and spiritual rescue.
So in Knglaiid there are whole generations on the right side. While for pretension
and hereditar\- sham we wish a speed\- overthrow, we pray (iod for the welfare and
continuance of a self-sacrificing, intelligent, virtuous and Christian aristocracy.
WKSTMINSTICR ABHKV, LONDON.
TMK WORLD AS SEKX TO-DAY.
tl'ey la,.^l. tlu.v Iau,l,, when the "c^; U^^ 7 .ul ^d /"h 'T' "' ='" '"^■"'"'^- ^^••-'
IS .... hair-way work about it ' ^ " ' '''"" "'">' '■''^■^•'" l''^^ ^I'^'^''', a.i.l tl.cc
.some of the Welsh n.ediei.'u ' '^ ^'''>"«"'l-. Maenlwro, and Vstwvlh ; of
Llandriiidod ; of some of the ( ' •;i!'''"f "'*"'''"'■' ^'''">wrtv<l, Trefriw and
cerwyn and Aanfawddwv If • ! ^^ ^''^'"""""taiiis, sticli as iVncwni-
youareatall,,n/zled uiththepronun-
!> ease ^a-t one of ih,. Weish diction-
ciatiou of these names, vou will
anes, entitled: " Dvmchwelia.i
cannot succeed yon will, perhaps
a lanyiiaoe which the Welsh
alloruchel y Pah." An.l if then u,n
stoj., and l.c as i-norant as I am' of
•say has ,n it capacities fur tenderness,
and UK-e shades of meaning, and pathos,
and tlu-nderin-s of pcnvcr besidr which
■I imL ifc 1 ii I
^m ^
-^l! j. )
\Vi:ST.MI.\STKl< IIKIIK,
'\NI> CLOCK TOWKK, I.O.NDoN.
fcnnd Wales to ^c t.:' nl^^^'^^ f ^^ ^^^ '^^ ^"^Hsh Covernn.ent has
Knrope. and in vertical thickness the 4rT , ' '"' ''"' '^'' ^''^''' -«' ^^^^^^^ i"
copper, and .inc.and silver, am " ,d ,„:/sr vet 0^^ 7 ,"""• "^" '"^"' '-^-^ '--'- -'^1
;:rtn;^^i-- ^^ --->--^-:h;n^^^^ -
the Ten Conunandn.ents. the £0 l" > ve, t le f \l"'r""T'^ ^ ^^'"■-''''^'
•lational games. " '^' ' ^''^ Apostles' Creed, and something about tlieir
An astounding " Rible " th^^ ^^r■^^ t- 1 ^
The slow advancement was Ikcu sc'^ ,' !^^^ ■''''' "'"'''■ ^'"''^ ^''°'^''' ^''"'k appenred.
tm/m
466
THK KARTII GIRDLICD.
till' throne if tliey all spoke tlu- iMij^^Iisli laiij,niaK«.'. Ihit, afterward, tlie priiitiiiK press of
Wales ),'ot into full swinj;, and now books and jjeriodicals l)y the hundreds of thousands ol
copies are printed .'.iid circulated in the Welsh lanj^uaj-e. Hut, excepting a few ballads of an
immoral nature, corrupt literature dies as soon as it touches this rej^ion.
Many bad Kuj^lish nov( Is that blifjlit other countries cannot live a month in the putt
atmosphere of tiiese mounlaius. The fact is, that the Welsh are an intensely reli^i()U>
])eople, and one of their foremost men declares that in all their literature there is not oik
book atheistic or infidel.
riie jijraiulesl pul|)it eloquence of the centuries has sounded through these gorges. 1
asked an intelligent Welsh lad> if there were any people living who remembered the great
Welsh divine, Christian Kvaus. She replied : " Ves I I remember him — that is, I remem-
ber the excitement. I was a child in churcii,and sat in a pew, and could not .see him U<v
the crowd, but the scene made on me an indelible impression."
For con.secrated fire the Welsh preachers are the most effective in the world. Taki 11
all in all, there are no people in Europe that more favorably inpress me than the Wel>li,
The uambv ])aml)\' traveler, afraid of getting his shoes tarnished, aiul who loves to shake
hands with the tips of the fingers, and desires conversation in a whis])er, would be disgustid
with Wales. ISut they who have nothing of the fastidious in their lemperanients, and wlin
admire strength of voici.-, strength of arm, streiiglh of purpose, and strength of charactii,
will find among the Welsh illimitable entertainment.
On my way fnMii Wales I met with one of the most exciting scenes I ever witnessed.
We were in a rail train going at a terrific velocity. There are two or three locomotives in
Kngland celebrated for si)eed ; one they call the Flying Dutchman, another they call llu
Yorkshire Devil. We were flying ahead at about sixty miles the hour. There were five nl
us, four gentlemen and a lady, in an ICiiglish car, which is a difTerent thing, is most peo|)l(.'
know, from an American car, the former holding comfortably only about eight persons, four
of them may occupy one seat, facing four on the other seat. We halted at the " station,"
as they .say in Kngland, or at the " depot," as we say in America. .\ gentleman caiiu
to the door and stood a moment, as if not knowing whether to come in or stay out. The
conductor compelling him to decide immediately, he got in. He was finely gloved, and
every way well dressed.
Seated, he took out his knife and began the attempt of splitting a sheet of paper edge-
wise, and at this .sat intensely engaged for perhaps an hour. The suspicion of all in the
car was aroused in regard to him, when suddenly he arose, and looked around at his fellow-
passengers, and the fact was revealed by his eye and manner that he was a maniac. The
lady in the car (.she was traveling unaccompanied) became frenzied with fright, and rushed
to the door as if about to jump out. Planting my foot against the door, I made this death-
leap impossible. A look of horror was on all the faces, and the question with each was,
" What will the madman do next? "
A madman unarmed is alarming, but a madman with an open knife is terrific. In the
demoniac strength that comes to such a one he might make sad havoc in that flying rail
train, or he might spring out of the door as once or twice he attempted. It was a question
between retaining the foaming fury in our company, or letting him dash his life out on the
rocks.
So it might l)e a question between his life and the life of one or more in the train.
Our own safety said, "Let him go!" Ofir humanity said, "Keep him back from instant
death ! " and humanity triumphed. The bell-rope reaching to the locomotive in the English
le printinjj press of
reds t)!' tliousaiids (it
ijj a few ballads of an
month in the pun
1 intensely relij^ioii-
ire there is not one
j^Ii these Ror^Hs. I
nienibered the j^real
1 — that is, I reniein-
ild not see him i'ur
1 tlic world. Takiii
lie than tl'e Welsh.
who ]o\es to shake
r, would he disj^ustid
nperainents, and wlm
tren},rtli of charactir,
cs I ever witnessed.
;liree locomotives in
notlier they call tlu
There were five <>l
linj.^. IS most peo])lc'
it eii.^ht persons, four
2d at the " station,"
A <.:;entlcinan caiiu'
in or stay ont. TIr-
IS finely gloved, and
L sheet of paper ed,i;e-
spicion of all in tin.'
around at his fellow-
was a maniac. Tin-
h fright, and ruslud
r, I made this deatli-
ition with each was,
fe is terrific. In llie
'oc in that flying rail
. It was a question
h his life out on the
Dr more in the train,
im back from inst;int
notive in the English
rail trains is on the
two or three stout ]
the attempt withoii
whirlwind by piillinjr
W'lien an Kngl
the bell.roi)e along
outside edges of the
is only to make pa.s.sen
ger.'
omforta
at llie idea that tl
can stop the train
they want to, and as
is not oiiee in a tliot
and times aii\ one s
willing to ri.sk his an.
and reach out of the
window long enough
to work the rope, Uie
<lelusion is seldom
broken. To rid onr-
.selves of our glioNth-
a.ssociale seemed ini-
po.ssible.
Then there caiiu-
a struggle as to who
should have the siipie-
niacy of that ear, right
reason or dementia.
The demoniac moved
around the car as
though it belonged to
liim, and all the rest of
lis were intruders. Then
he dropped in convul-
sions across the lap of
one of the passenger--.
At this monu iit,
when we thought the
horror had cliinacter-
ated, the traged\- was
intensified. We plunged
into the midnight dark-
TIIK C()RO\.\TI()N CUAIR, WK.ST.MIN.STKR
.\ItI!ICV.
wav carriage ethee; I • '"' ""''""'/' ''"''^ '^"^''^"' '''''^" '^ '^^ ^-^^--<^^^ i" a rail-
V a> carnage eight feet by six, in a tunnel of romnlct. d^rkn^^^ „.itl, , ■ •. -,
the occurrence never be rene-ited ' W. i-., ""'!'"' ''■i'^l-"cs.s, with a maniac ? May
or ill what wav. ^ ' ^^' ^'''^ "°' ^^'''^^ '"*^'"^»^- ''^ ""^1'^ ^lash upon us
■•■
468
THE EARTH GIRDLED.
U i
We waited for the lijj^lit, and waited while the hair lifted upon tlie scalp, and the blood
ran cold. When at last the li<,Wit looked in thronj^di the windows, we found the afflicted man
1\ inj;- almost helpless. When the train halted he was carried ont, and we changed carriages,
for we did not want to be in the place where snch a revolting scene had been enacted.
Thank Ciod for healthfnl possession of the mental facnlties. For that great blessing how
little appreciation we have. iM-oni cradle to grave we move on nnder this light, not realiz-
ing how easy it wonld be to have it snnffed out.
God pity the insane. For a)l who have been wrecked on that barren coast, let oiu-
deepest sympathies be awakened. Nothing more powerfnlly stirred the heart of the "Man of
sorrows" than the demoniac of (iadara, and what relief when the devil came ont of him and
the desperate patient, wIkj had cut himself among the tondw, sat clothed and in his right
mind.
I'ntil that encounter in the rail train we were in doidjt as to whether we preferred
English or American railroading, as each has its advantages. But since then we cast our
vote in favor of American travel. We cannot, excepting in two or three cases, equal the
English in speed. Their tracks are more solidly l)uilt, and hence greater velocity is possible
without peril. But the arrangements for " baggage " as we .say, or " luggage " as they sav,
is far inferior. No getting of a trunk checked for five hundred or a thousand miles without
again having to look at it. Nothing to show for your baggage, and only a label put on the
lid announcing its destination ; you are almost sure to lose it indess at every change of cars
yon go out and supervise the transportation. Beside that it is impossible to .stop the train,
however great the necessity. A prolonged scene like that which I have just now sketched in
an American railway wotdd have been an impossibility. What though occasionally a weak
man may impose on the convenient bell-rope and stop the train without sufficient cau>e.
there ought to be a certain and immediate way of halting a train in case of such a wild.
appalling and tremendous exigency.
It
It is well for ever\- one crossing the ocean to know beforehand the difference between
the use of certain words in England and America. The American says "depot," the
F^nglishman says " station." The American .says "ticket office," the Englishman sa\s
" booking office." The American says "baggage," the Englishman says "luggage." The
American says " I guess," the Englishman .says " I fancy " The American .says " crackers,"
the FvUglishman .says "bi.scuit." The American says "checkers," the F'ngli.shman savs
"draughts." The American says " yeast," the F^^nglishman .says " barm." The American
calls the close of the meal " dessert," the Englishman calls it " sweets." The American
says "sexton," the Elnglishmau says "doorkeeper." The American uses the word "clever''
to describe geniality and kindness, the Englishman uses the word " clever " to describe
sharpness and talent. There are many more dififerences, but as education advances and
intercomnninication 1 ^^tween England and America becomes still more frequent, there will
be only one tongue, and all words will mean the same on this and the other side of the
Atlantic.
I have at differe M: times seen much of the F^nglish watering places. They are in full
tide in Septeudxr, that "month in this respect corresponding with our August. Brighton is
like Long Branch. Weymouth is like Cape May. Scarborough is like Saratoga. Isle of
Wight is like h ■xxen.
Brighton being within an houi anda half of London, the great ma.sses pour out to its
THE WORLD AS SEEN T()-DAY.
rcraw " as the\- sa
ies pour out to it
, 469
.::l:o/t.:;:^^;if irco,:;;;i:rtr:f ;;r'v'-^ ^"--^ ^"^ '-^- p^^- s.ut
place I ever saw. ItYs built on t^r a "s ""1 '■■ '"',;"''"''*' beauty than anv
land reach out into the sea a.Tlm iclre Is of ' "'r "' ^'""^'"^ 'fwo great anns of
lunuh^a vea. o,c, straggles it^r:!! o^tt t ^^ p::;;^; ^^^^ '"" ^"^ ^^ ^^''^ --" '
for a j;: ::rt :■;!:;: :^^r ' • :'::;::;; r:..!^"'"' -i' '^^^- -■^' -->• -- --e
thern.on,eter hovers about the fifties/rnd e "'o, bre^,:'; :" ^T'' '" '^'^"^""^^^'- ^'-
others are skating at London. ^ ^ breakfast w,th open windows, while
Of all the summer watering-places we have P, rco„., •
I ■ '• — — f — ^ — -^ ' ' i'Ui me prices
THH HKACH AT URir.HTOV
are enormous and not manv could meet the,,, r • w • ,
theologians as the scene of the late Frede ick Rol,e,. '^ ■ ■" ^'''' ^"°^"" ^° American
church, M-hich would hold perlu.ps s'x or ei^M , ' """''''■>- ^^'^ '-^"^"^'"I '"^ little
preached after death to tho^isTnto cler— '"°''^'^"^ ^^-" -^-- P"lpit he
1-werful, original and n,elancholv.sernt''vh-.HrT "1 ^'""'"'' ^'"^^^ ^''^^^^^>
1-sniglits on the floor with the bacr^f hiri u ; ,f T" ''' ^'''^^' ^'^
could sleep no other wav witho.tt tor ure , i wiet tTll """" °' "" ''''''^ '^«-"- ''-
Some of the En-lish cler^v l' '""l^'l' ''^'^ "" ''^'}^ '^''^'^^ torment.
-re of them have h^„^c;:!S^,ed'a:dmn:nSetS"^?^ "-''^ -ong direction, but
evening of the Sabbath, we worshiped R ' '", '°"J"^^^' affabilities. In the
mural cemeter^• " to see his . ave T L T ''""''-'''■ ^^'^" ^^'^'"^ '"^" " the extra-
of fresh af^ction. On aH sui:^ •, J' f^.tl^'ilfV^ J^T "^ """ ''^^'^'^ ^" ^^^ "-'^
-"s, one by his congregation, the ..the bv e w I ' '' 7''"'" ''^^^'^ '^'•""^^' "'-''-•)'-
on the one medallion hi. church 1 Je L^ril^d, ^' t;^eS-t .:^:;- t^;!!:^-^ ^^
Wtk^'
HPi
470
THE EARTH GH^iDLED.
he awakened the holi-
est feelinj^s in poor and
rich, in ignorant and
learned ; therefore is
he lanienied as their
gnide and comforter,
by many who, in the
bond of brotherhood
and in gratefnl remem-
brance have erected this
monument." On the
other medallion the
working people, whose
practical friend lie
proved himself to be,
preferred the inscrip-
tion, "To the Reverend
R Robertson, IM. A. In
gratefnl remembrance
of his sympathy and in
deep sorrow for their
loss, the members of
the Mechanics' Institr.-
tion and the working-
men of P)righton have
placed this medallion
on their benefactor's
tomb."
How independent
of time and death an
earnest man lives on.
That is a poor liu-
whicli breaks down at
the cemetery. ;\ran\
of these illustrioiis
English preachers had
insignificant looking
chnrches. We went ;it
Bristol to see Robert
Hall's chapel. The
])resent .sexton remem-
bered the great Bajjti^;
orator and preachci.
The clnnch in RoIk;;
Hall's day wonld ntl
hold more than si.\ hun-
dred auditors, but there
A'akened the lioli-
elin<4S in poor and
in ignorant and
L*d ; llifrcforc is
nnenicd as tlicir
: and comforter,
iiany who, in llic
of brotlicrliood
n gratefnl rcnicin-
•chavc erected tliis
inient." On tlic
medallion tlu-
ing people, wliosi-
:ical friend \\v
d himself to l)c,
rred the inscrip-
"To the Reverend
ibertson, ]\I. A. In
fnl remembrance
i sympathy and in
sorrow for their
the members of
lechanics' Institr,-
md the workini;-
of P>righton have
i this medallion
heir benefactor's
iow independent
lie and death an
5t man lives on.
is a poor life
1 breaks down at
■emctery. Man\
hese ilhistrioiis
sh preachers had
nificant lookin;;
lies. We went at
)1 to see Robert
s chapel. The
it sexton reinein-
the great Bajjti^;
r and preacher.
:lnircli in Robeii
; day would ml
iiore than six hnii-
luditors, l)nt then.
THK WORI.D AS ,SKKX TO-DAY.
out. Ole I!„ll c„„ld plav'.l,c. " I „ 1, h C ' ■ " ''' " "7 "'"" "' ™* '"-■ ""-
.o.,:;::::;^i:^:i:;f -.:;-- tir- :r">-i --' » ^ ..«. >.... «n,
^j
OSJ)
I
T.oxriDN- nKinr.i:.
'r.r' .s;;,°„.'r;t;;';-Zu,;'e' i'i:.:';,;;;v„;:;.T"'-':". "-t ''■■"""°"" '■- ™*
ease of ,l,c cl„,rcl,, reading „„ „,e ton.fet'm". ' " "' ""= ^"'■'' "' ""-' """''■
"SacRKD to TIIR jriCMoKv ,„.•
KI.rZAIiKTH WALHRiDGi-:,
Tliu I);iirviimirs D.-nmlittT,
xvlio (iicil :\I,
ly ,^o, I So I,
Slie I)
■\«e"(l V Vi'.irs.
illK<leiuI, yet spi^aketli.
472
THK e;arth girdlhd.
Or the tomb of the sclioohnastcr and chiirch-clcrk, whose epitajih [ should think had been
written by some lad who had felt the switch of the pedagogue, and took post-morUm
vengeance :
" In yonder sacred pile liis voice was wont to sound,
And now his body rests beneath llie hallowed j^rouiid.
lie lau^ht the peasant hoy to read and use the pen ;
His earthly toils are o'er — he's cried his last Amen .' "
Or, if you are fond of antiquities, you will go to Carisbrook Castle and see the room
where Princess Klizabeth, her heart broken at the imprisonment and death of her father,
Charles the First, was found dead with her head on the open Bible at the text — " Come
unto me, all ye that are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest." Or, if fond of
tragedy, you will stand on the bank at Saudown and look off upon the water where, a year
or two ago, the Kurydice sank, with all on board, under a sudden squall. A gentleman
dcscriu'cd to nie the scene and how the bodies looked as tliev were brought up the beach.
Oh, how wonderful for all styles of interest is this Isle of Wight — the bays, the yachts,
the hills, the uuuisions, the arbors, the bridges, the .seventy-two thousand souls augmented
by the temporary population from the sweltering cities ! Veutnor and Undercliff and
Shauklinchine and Blackgarg !
The isle, twenty-three miles long by thirteen wide, is one great dream of beautv.
What trees arch it ! What streams silver it . What flowers embo.ss it ! W' hat memories
haunt it !
" The sparkliuj; streamlet, joyous, bright and free,
Leaps tliron};h the rocky chine to Kiss tiie sea,"
Meiiiorable among my wanderings will be the day spent . i the Isle of Wight. The
long storm of weeks lifted that morning, and there were garc'.ns above as well as gardens
beneath, groined roof of cloud over tesselated pavements and field. Fleets .sailing the sea ;
fleets sailing the sky. Boats racing in the bay, and regattas of clo-ul on the sky. The
scene .seemed let down out of lieaven on two crimson pulleys of sunrise and sunset.
If you want to mingle with the jolly nias.ses of Fngland, let loo,se for a holiday, go to
Brighton. If you want to .see the highest fashion of the realm, and relieve the plethora of
an apoplectic pocketbook, go to Scarborough. But if you want to dream of eternal woods,
and eternal waters, and eternal sunshine, make your pillow somewhere on the blissful and
enchanting Isle of Wight.
*
* *
Our hearts overflow with gratittule to (iod and the English people. I do not think an\
American ever had so good an opportunity of seeing this country as I have had. I have
been from one end of it to the other, and .seen its vast population .v ■ y and by night, at
work and in assemblage.
Among other places I have been to Nottingham, the city of i"ce • .' mingham, the cit\
of metals ; Manchester, the city of cotton mamifactory ; Liverpo^' the city of international
communication ; Kdinbnrgh, the city of universities; Olasgow, the city of ship carpentr\ ;
Xewcastle-on-Tyne, the city of coals ; Sheflield, the city of sharp kni\-es ; Bristol, the cit\
of West India produce ; Luton, the city of straw hats ; Northampton, the city of leather ;
Hull, the city of big hearts and large shipping ; York, the city of cathedral grandeur ;
Ilanley, the city of pottery ; Perth, the city of Walter Scottish memories ; Dundee, tlic cit'.
of Robert ^McCheyne ; Pai.sley, the city of shawls ; .Aberdeen, the city of granite ; Brighton,
Id tliink had been
, took posl-morttm
e and see the room
eatli of her father,
I tlie text—" Come
t." Or, if fond of
vater where, a )ear
all. A gentleman
lit np the heaciu
le bays, the yachts,
id souls angniented
lid Undercliff and
dream of beauty.
! What memories
le of Wight. The
: as well as gardens
ets sailing the .sea ;
I on the sky. The
and sunset.
for a holiday, go to
>ve the plethora of
II of eternal woods,
jn the blissful and
I do not think an\
have had. I haw
y and by night, at
minghani, the citv
ty of international
of .ship carpentrv ;
s ; Bristol, the city
he city of leather ;
;ithedral grandeur ;
; Dundee, the cit.
granite ; Brighton,
474
THH KARTH GIRDLKD.
U ''
tlic city of siuniner play ; Roc-lulale, the city of John Hii.nlit ; Cliestt-r, ♦lie city of antiqui-
ties ; London, tlie eily of everytliinj:^ j^rand, ^lorions, indescvibal)ie — stnpeudons L widon I
Mavslie stand in jieace and inosptiily till the arcliannel's trunipi'! -plilsonen the gr.r.iteot
Westminster .\bhe\-, and lets u]) all lier nii<,dit\- dead from the ki''.;sul five ceiituries :iv]o to
Sir Rowdand Hill, the anth ••• of pe.-ny jiostane.
lint now I am J^oiny; to show y( u somelhinjj^ yon have never licauii d of.
A s^ave is bcinj; opened in ICn,L;iand that overlo])s ali other thinj^s i;i stirrin.q; niterest.
Not the ,y;rave of a prince or kinj;-, Imt the j;rav( of a whole city, the bnried city of Uvi-
caninm. Ridin<;' ont from Shre\vsbnr\ <>;• \Velliu^;iM; for five miles \on see the soil ji^ettin.L;
black, and alonj;- on the banks of the Severn yon Inul the site of an ancient city br.ilt In' ihe
Romans, a citv seventeen hnndred yeais old. For m my , ntnri, .. it has lain nnder gronnd
sa\e a fraj^ment of wali. I'ifteen Inmdied \ears a,ii^o ilnj^lrmd wav eo\-vved with thcM'
Roman towns and cities. P>i..in,i( far from the seat of ,<r'>ver!'ment r:t Rome, these distant
])eo])le l)rakc aw.!\ ''-I'.n the liome government and formed iridepeiide.; princij)a!ities, and
the.se principalities '"snally became je jlons and quarrelsome and destroyed each other.
So this citv of Uvica!,\um perished. Charcoal in the remains of the city show that il
was de^troved bv fiv^. ' o trie .skeletons fonnd in the cellar.s, some cronchinj^ and some
prostrate, show tiiai ib'iiin wa- .sndden and accompanied with horril)le massacre. This
bni ied citv i.-. on ilie ■■slate of the Duke of Cleveland, who is an old man and j^ronty and has
no interest in the cNhnmation. The Oueen and the I'rinoe of Wales offer to contribute to
the entire nncoverin<; i>i this dead city, jirovided t!ic title of th' 'ground be put in a shape
that will secure its pernuinent possession as a place of public interest. Althou<>h but a
.small part has been e.xhnnicd, enou<,di has been exposed to make the place worthy of a visit
bv everv traveler. Here is the blacksmith .shop with a .stone anvil where they made plows
and battle-axes. Here is the bath-room with floor beautifully tessellated, showing that tho>r
citizens admired cleanliness and art. Here is the heatinir apparatus by which the whole house
wi;;- warmed seventeen lunidrcd years aj^o. There is the masonry wonderful in the fact that
the mortar has never since been equaled, for it is harder than the stone, in some places wdiere
the stone has crnmbled the mortar standin<^ firm. Capitals and ba.ses and sliafts show that
the second century was not a whit behind the nineteenth in some thin,<^s. Here is when,-
tlie form of a female was fonnd, and there the skull of an old man with one hnndred and
thirtv-two pieces of coin near him, and a few heads of nails and .some decomposed wonii
showinjj that the monev was in a box. The old man, no doubt, at the time of the taking
of the city, crawled in here to save liis life and his treasure. The heads on the coins were
those of Constantine, Valens, Julian, Theodore, and Tetricns.
Here are the storeroom and some specimens of burnt wheat. The houses had no upi^ei
stories and no staircases. In places you can see where the stones have been orn by tlie
feet of .seventeen centuries a.<;o. Here is a room which nnist have belon<i;ed to some
mechanic, a worker in bone. Here are the skeletons of horses and oxen of sixteen Imndved
vears past. We pick np and put in our pocket a few s])ecimen: ■ '' teeth that ached fourteen
hundred vears at>:o. Here is a receptacle in which the inhabita. ;ed to sweep the rnbbi>]i
of the household, hair ]iin'-\ ' ine needles, nails, oyster .sliells ;; ' tmjken pottery. The hair
pins were made of bone, a'. : ;ickcn in the middle so a,- : ' slip out from the coil ^i
hair which adorned the f.-n. .;. s. Out of these ruins h: - ] -en taken steelyards, a com'-
for scrapiu','- the skin in the baths, artists' palettes, a horse > . ■, and medicine stamps. It
seems tlie inhabitants were troubled with weak eyes, and mm tlic medicine stamps indie, le
treatment lor that disorder. 'Hie name of one of the enterpri-M:- loctorsof the city istl:u>
, Oie city of antiqni-
siupuiuKH'.s L fiuloil I
-1 ont'ii tile gr .I'.itt'ot
live ceiitliries :i;y-,) to
ii< d of.
;s iii stirring interest.
e buried city of Uvi-
u see the soil gettini^
;ient city hr.iU by ilu-
as lain under ground
■ (.•ov'.-ved with these
Roiiie, tliese distant
■.; princii)alitics, and
ed each other,
the city show that it
crouching and sonie
■ible massacre. This
II and grouty and has
offer to contribute to
id be put in a shape
St. Although but a
lace worthy of a visit
lere they made plows
•d, showing that tho>^-
■hich the whole houst.-
lerful in the fact that
in some places where
and shafts show that
ings. Here is wdievr
dth one hundred and
nc deconijiosed wooii
le time of the takin.y;
ids on the coins were
houses had no upjei
e been orn by tlie
ve l)elonged to soiiio
?n of sixteen hundred
h that ached fourteen
1 to sweep the rubbi-li
.'u pottery. The h.iiv
out from the coil "t'
n steelyards, a com'"
medicine stamps, h
iciue stamps indie, li.
tors of the city is thii>
THK WORLD AS SKKN TO-DAY.
K::r ha:^;:;;:^':;f;;:j:-^ ■•'•-.. ..t t,,: are a,, go„. .,., Z
tl.e grave of a sohlicr bv th na e .'.f r. ' m -■•^-'■".^ l-nnau ashes. There is
are, eleven out of nineteen, deZ J ,^; "n i ."'"'^ t""'^^ '"" ^'"' -^'""^ "' ^''^- -"^'''itams
<i^f"nued people, l,nt it ha^ bee, ' ; ' n"'^''^ Tr ''^' '' '"'' '"■'■'' '' -^>- ^"•
-rtau. acids in the vegetable n.onld e n^'t s, n^f ui i'TT' ""' ''" ="'''^" "'"
a^V and that eitv n,ay have been as ^ell L^ 3 r'"' ' ?' ^'' ^''^ ^^^^I''-''" '''^^t
cities. """'^'1 a> the inliabilants of onr modern
Place of interest untold ' Im„- .,,,,. .n
VICTORIA EMHANKMIi.NT O A K l.llxs,
followin
c.o,.„f a-,„u;:m,l >vi,l, niteo,, k . i, „ 1 , l"i"*lf with sl,id,l .,f„„|d „,„, „
l'"-,'r.-Ti i„.-,i ,, "^' ■""'■'"''" flat on tin- unmii,! ii, ,e,r,„-. ])„(
476
THK KARTH GIRDLED.
are, ami what y.,n <lo m tl.i.s town. I c.nj.no yo„ in tl,e i.an.c of (lod a.ul ,.f the Holy
Cross ! So tlic .lovil was dctVatcl aiul driven out of tlie dead citv of rvicani.un
In tins Icoend we may j,a-t intimation of how tlic fell spirit niav he driven ,mt of our
livinjr cittes. He makes as fearlul a n^^ht now as when in thunder an.i li^ditnin^^ he dropped
on I everel and Ins brave knij^hts i,i Tvicanium. But when I'everel lifted the cross his
Satanic majestv j^ot weak in tlie knees, and surrendered :he citv he had held so lon<^ Xot
by sword or j,nu., or i^oiice club, or ecclesiastical anathema will the Satanic be expelled from
New \ork, or Brooklyn, or London, but by the same weapon which Peverel carried I ift
It firmly, lift it hi<r],, lift it perpetual I , , tlie cross, the holv cross, the " '
trnimpiiant cross of the Christian religion. One flash of tliat will
send consternation upon all the battalions diabolic. Thus may
riccAnii,i.v ciRcrs, lonpon.
the boastful and proud cities of our time learn salutary lesson, from the twilight and mid-
night egeiids of the dead city of the dead centuries. As soon as von arriv-e in England
for sight-seeing, make inquiry for the best way of getting to Uvicanium.
IRELAND.
We pass over to Ireland, the country that grew Oliver Goldsmith, Henrv Grattan,
Edmund Burke, and Daniel O'Connell.
.1 . ^'^i'"'' fJ'^ ^'?^''^ ''"'^ remember this last giant, and how, as an Italian writer savs,
that when O Council applauded, or cursed, or wept, or laughed, all Ireland applauded, or
cursed, or wept, or laughed with him. His manner must have been overwlielmimdv
inaguetic A gentleman who heard him, described to me O'Connell's wonderful ad-iptatii.u
to tliest>le ot his audience. Appearing before a rough, out-door crowd one dav, he began
)cl and of tlio Holy
'vicaniiiiii.
I.' driven out of otir
,Hitiiin<r he dropiKd
ifted tlie cross liis
held so lon^-. Xot
ic be expelled from
■erel carried, Lift
wili<rlit and niid-
irrive in England
, Henry Grattan,
alian writer says,
id applauded, or
over\v]ie]niin<,';ly
derful adaptation
le day, he began
THK V\'ORI.D AS SKKN TO-DAY.
Ifow
are
you, boys? And
'iKW fare tlu
477
women wli,,
I'is address by saving-
own yu? "
■see if tl,e IrW J ,.„ ",' °" ""='"• »'«'» '!■"". tret Z^,. "' "",' "■'"' '"^ Hetm, „f
»"Iy co,„pa« the I,eh,„, „. , , .' "-""'"'»• ■«''"™. ~ ^
•»-^.^visa,aracIiseco,:,;l:';:;;;- ™-''- 'I™" "' "- l.n„c,r«, v„. ,„„ ,„, , ,
and puhhc violence m. V . '^ "^"^^^ t^'-'^P avcd of drnnl-„. ' ,-^°- Ireland of
P'ofeLrs. Hu d iusof th° ' "'' -^^"'^"^-^ "^ -"^'.- !■. into ll"' f '"''"^' «''^"■'^'■■".^-
-"o one allowed to be " , ^ ' ^°"^^''^ ^'"'•'' M,>uutu,orris? DueHm k ■''' ' "'^'•^^^•'- '"
weapons were kent f " '"■ ""^'^ ''^^ '''-^^1 l^iHed s,„, > o, ^ , "''' '''''' ^'•'^tal,lished
'mmm
478
THK HAkTII (;iRl)IJ-:i).
»fl
I r
If till re were ;i fair dauj'liti r in ji lioii<cIu)l<l, tlicrc was not ,1 mniiUMit of (lunustic satVis.
Coiiipaiiifs (if l)aiulus woultl i'.'i.:J. '< '• n^ioii and i'air> off llie Icniak' pri/f, and it m
acconiplisliin,!jr this it wtT iicoc>.H;n ,-:ill tliu fatluT and hrotluT, tin. acliiLVcnifttt \v,i
consi(k'R(i all llu' niou' lnillianl, and tlir cninls wciv slow to pniii>h. Wliilr tlKie v ■
penalties llirealiiied a^ain-it sneli theft of honsehold trea>iir.s, the law was evaded
l)Httin!.; the female on the horse of the bandit, and he rode hehiiid so that it niij^ht be s.ii ;
she tocik him instead ol I, is lakin^^ hu'. In thi- way the mansions and the castles of tli>
jirineeh were dishonored, and the nun foremost i" sncli ontnij^^es were <,n-eeted a:
admired as heroes, and walked ahont in ju uniions iniiform —top boots and red wa;'
VIKW Ol' [.AKl? Kir.I.A'' -I^V, IKia.ANIi.
C(
Irel
)ats, lined with lace. S
ucn men now wouii
iW\
rt pih'rin;
to ihe prison
inu
A cenlnr\- a'n) Ireland's literature
'epr:
to tl
le last decree ol nulcceiiex
most jjopnlar son^;- of the da\' wa
han-'in'r, and was entitle
s (lesenpi.
The Xi"ht
rison see
ne thi
M'
lit ])revions to p
Was Strctclu-d." Xow each citv nf
Ireland has its eminent anthors. Many ol ,iie new-papers and ma.ya/ines are adnnnislr.
)f eK\ lied literare and moral taste. A ISelfast or Dnblin shortliaiiu writer
can
tak
e d' 'Wii
as]
lec'ch
as r,ipi(
as
the steno<rrapher of a London or Xew York paper.
.\ centnrv ai^o the amnscments of the Irish people were cniel and bar!)art)ns.
baitinir was in hiuh tavor, the en
)W<1S
locjk
ni<^ on approvui!:
while the bnll, fastenec
ith
nn.y; witli a rope Inrnisli
he(l
the ma\ or of the rinsj;," wonld be teased
tl
le (lo'j
11(1
thev in tnrn brnised and tormented nntil .sometimes a broken le;.; of the do,!j; wonld have h
cnl off so that, with the three retnainin'
it mi^i;ht, unimpeded, go oii with the savau-.w.
; of fluiiU'stic sakt\.
lak' prizf, and ii m
u- acliifVviiK'iit \v,i
Wliili' tlicix w •
aw was c\a(If(l i,
lal il tiii.nht 1k' >aiil
(1 llif casllcs 111" th-
wcR' j^rcctfil anil
)Ots anil red wai>t-
to iIk- |)visi)n>
of in(kci.-iu-y. 1
I previous to prJ
Xo\v carli cil^
;s art adiiiinislr.ii
■rilcr can take (';■
r.
(1 liarharous. \
f l)nll, fastfuifi
cd \<y the (k).!4>.
(),i,r would have b
;i with the .sava'j'
lie
i \'e
Wll
■ a
,11(1
la
THH WORM) AS Si.:i-:x TO-DAY.
''''■^' I't.l.lic exccutious were omc of tl,e
Tlie inil.lic executions were <Mu- of II,. . i ^''^
api^-r in ,rotes,ue apparel, a ukJu . : ^::^ZTrT'- '''' """«-" -'"'''
llK'se l,au,,nMen, Ton, (ialvin l.v uauK- wa m , V f '"""'' "" '"'•■* ''''^'l^- ' "H' ol
Not nn. alTronted Inn- „ ,„„eh as t u m 1 i ' " ■' " 'V'''^^'' '"'• '^ '-^i"^ ^Lolka.
P'-'^-'^«- "f l"a...in,. ,K. would iud J k"'.; ,•'''"'''; "'""" ''^' ^1- " '' to have l J
'in i.,ii\iii, Uic lliu-itMii V, ;.
'".^'"aiL. livui iiiilil
-ryi.«.i,c ,,„„„„„, ;„.„„;-;;;—'-.
:in airin.!^,"'
^•Wmtmm
4 So
TiiH i-AkTii (;iRi)i,i';ix
hi
su-t,H',st tliat wliiK' Iivlaiid may nut !.c as yn.,,1 aii.I li.ippv as \vc would wish, it is fr
iKltiT and liappiii tliaii in oldfii tini.s.
^ hvland ..|- a cciilnrv a^o had a cliaractir wliich illnstratid the villainv of his tim.
" lik'^r kodu'," as hv was iMlUd. was as had as lie was hravc, and as nic-an as he vv .
.ijuifn.us. Indeed he wasa miKtniv..f inipossihilities. He attraricd Lord Chcstcrlicld i,
his suavity, and iViyhtened the nioimtainc .rs wi:h his iVrocilv. He was spoiled hv ih,
caresses ul the yreat, and instead of availing himself of the grand .ipportnnities opened heln,.
FINC.AI.'S CAVK.
him went to work to see how mnch infamy he could achieve. He crossed to Canada and joined
the Indians in their warfare a.train.st the white popiUation, was charged with stealing a rilk-,
and utterly disgraced. Then he gave iiis life to wreaking vengeance on the heads of liis
slanderers. He returned to Ireland where he was heing : lored to favor, when the slander
o the stolen rifle reached the " Knierald Isle." Ihil the thief who stole the rifle died, and
in his dying moments confessed himself the crimiu.-il. Soon "Tiger Roche" l)ecni:i'.s
leader in the attempt to put down Dublin ruffianism. The law bre;ikcr becomes the law
Wdiilil wish, it is r.ir
villainy of Iiis tiim
I .'In mean as Ik- w.,^
Lord CIicstiTlifld ir,
'f was spoiled l,y ihr
tiiiiitifsoix'iRd bfluir
to Canada and joined
villi stealin}; a rille,
' on the licads of liis
:)r, wlu'ii the slander
le the rifle died, ami
T Roclie " beciiiii'.s
ker becomes the law
Tin.: WORLD AS SKKX T()-I)AV.
,, , . - 'oinin.. ,|,..,,| ...;,i, „: . '. "i"'"" " "" "ninierous iiueiil,
-' "' tlK- Cane. l.„,sned there h ?le t ' ' '',' ," '" '"'^ '^'''^ •^■''- ^ '' '-.er Roehe '^
-«^an,l and thnni.h s.m.e techn ea ,;;;:;: "l^-,"^' -- -«'■>, taken back to
^eath akhon^h every day for three-lonrt ^ 1 i 11^ n'''^ ^'" "^' '"^'' ^ '-'"-"
-"> I.avdiv imagine sneh a charae.er in r , t.^n "n' '" '' '''^' ^^''■'-- ^Ve
■ ^" ''■ '>• "^' ^^-'^ "I-i>lauded and imitated.
ETON COU.P.r.K, N-H.,K ,,,^.,„„^ ^,^^,^,^
h
tr woes alleviated !
wounds be healed, and her hi
iiger fed, and
31
4S2
THK KARTH (IIRDLKD.
lA'a\-iii,n to (iiliLT ailiclus tlif stories of licr luoiintains and cities as tlicy ik)\v arc, wc
coiicliulu witii the poet's apo>tro|)lK- :
" Orc.'il, ,t;lc)iiims and fit'f,
I'iisl flower of llif (.arlli, ami first gem of the sea !"
TIr' Irish Channel treated ns l)etter tlian it treats most people. It lay down riuietl'.
till \vc i,^ot over it. In the calm, hrii^ht noon we landed. Hnt your first .step in ireland
reminds you of her snfTerin.os, Within siolit of where you land to take the cars for I'lelfast
is the place where the Catholics were driven into the .sea by their persecutors, and where
nine hundred monks were mnrdered by the Danes.
Xo country has ever endnred more sorrows tluin Ireland. But as yon roll into lUlf.i.^i
you are cheered bv a scene of prosperity. Ikdfast is the Chicajj^o of Ireland. This eil\
l)resented by James I. to vSir Arthur Chichester as an " insii^nificant villao;e," now has two
hmidred and twehe thousand inhaliitants, and all sails .set for further proj^rcss. .She makes
enouo;li linen to provide table coverin<,rs and .surplices and under<^arments f(n" all the
world. F>y an expenditme of one million two hundred and fifty thou.sand dollars she has
made her harbor easv of access to iunncnse shippin.t;. The thrift of th? city, with the
exception of occasional dei)ressions, is unprecedented in Ireland. The people are kind,
hospitable, enthusiastic, and moral. Her nniltitude of churches and rcli<^ions institutions
has hai' its evident elTect on the population. Her monuments, banks, colleges, and bridoi s
absorb Uie traveler's attention.
" Si)aiiniiiij till' I.ag.iii now \vc- liavi- in view
The great Long Krilge with arches twenty-two."
Iielfast has an arrav of very talented jireachers. Her pulpit is second to no cit\- iuhUm'
the sun. The churches are large and thronged. Her literary institnticms have the ablest
profes.sor.ships, and the longest roll of students. If I wanted to live in Ireland and had my
choice, I would live in ISelfast.
Thence von will run up to Londonderr\ — a walled city, historical down to its last bricl;.
Von feel, as \-ou enter the cit\-, that you have passed out of this century into the scvcuteeulli
centurv, and von bear the guns of siege thundering against the walls. I-'or one hundvnl
and five days the assault lasted, till cats and dogs were attractive food to the starving;
inhabitants. Walker, the minister of the place, proved himself a patriot, and harauoueil
the ]K'op]e to coinage and endurance. A high monnment has been raised to perjjetnate Ins
nuMUorv. Two thousand three hundred ]K'ople died from the siege. So that the glory of
the city is the glor\- of its majestic and Christian sufTering. .Xn' I a\' I it is always so.
Nothing is won by man, or church, or community, or nation, but through fire.
In the outskirts of this city was the famous agricultural school, and on arriviui^ I
immediately asked fcr Templemo\-le. Thackeray describes it as the mosi wonderful school
in all the world. He liked it better than Eton. He .said, after writing " Templemoxir,"
fortv-seven vears ago: "There are at this present writing five hundred boys at l'U<'ii,
kicked and licked, and bullied b\- another hundred, scrul)l)ing shoes, nuining errands ar.d
alsc concords, and still calling it education ! " Then he describes how superior
ni:ik
uu
fa
ipcn
this agricultural school was to all that, the doct(u-'s bill for .sevent\' pupils amounting to
THE WORLD AS SKEX TO-DAY
llicv now are
, ue
lay down riuiell',-
St step in irclaiK!
he cars for lii-ll'as'
■cutors, and wlnrc
lU roll into ISclfasi
■eland. This ciu
i<^e," now has [wn
2;ress. vSlic makes
nents for all the
id dollars she lias
tlio city, with the
people are kiml,
iji^ious institutions
leges, and brid^i^es
d to no city under
IS ha\'C the ablest
eland and had my
ni to its last brici;.
ito the scvcnteeuth
lM)r one hundred
(1 to the starvitii,^
ot, and liaran,i;ued
1 to ])eriietuate his
that the ,<;lor\' of
I it is always ■-n.
1 fire.
and on arrivini; I
L wonderful sehi'nl
r " Teniplenioyle,"
red boys at I"U"n,
ming errands and
ibes how superior
pils atnonntin<.j to
ihirty-five shillinos p^r year. The b,,ys
"'clock a. ni., and to have for breakfast
made in stirabout, and one pint of .sweet
Nvas printed ,;t the be-innin- of the se.s-
hun^ry to tJiink of the sparseness of it.
>chool, one man told me it had "0,,,^.
it had "-one up." I;„t ajl aoreed in'tlie
>upp().se that .seiiool, like nianv ,,iher in-
bv too many rules. Templen'ioN le is in
matter of hisiorv. Walkino- around the
can look off int,, the far past, and .see the
back King- James, making themselves
their courage is handed d,,\vn from age
.-hanks, Alexander Irving, James Stewail
Coningham, William Cairns, Sanniel
man dies well when he dies in the defence
country. Von take a short run hv cars
'lace on earth— the (liant's Causewav.
as by mathematical calculation. A
4'S3
were to rise at 5.30
ele\ eii ounces of oatmeal
"iill<. The bill ,,f Care
sion, and it makes me
When I asked about the
down," and another that
fad that it had ,;-w/r. I
.stitution.s, had been killed
private hands, and a mere
ramparts of the cit\- yon
ap])rentice boys driving
immortal, for the roll of
to age— William Crook-
Kobert .Alorri.son, John
Ilarxey, and others. ,\
of his home, citv or
and reach the straiigest
Tile rocks here are cut
man is a fot)! who can
484
THE EARTH GIRDLED.
look at these rocks and not realize that the world had a design and a Designer. W',-.
it nothiiig hnt chance that made them octagonal, hexagonal, j^entagonal ? There an
thirt> -five thousand columns of rock more wonderful than all the sculptors and archite(.i>
of the ages could have hewn them. Here are rocks called the Chimney Tops, which iln
Spanish Armada in the fog took for the towers of Dunluce Castle, and blazed away at, lini
got no answering cannonade save the echo of the everlasting hills. Here is what :>
called the " Giant's Organ," because the rocks resemble the pipes of that monarch of nnisical
instruments. I would like to stand by this Giant's Organ during a thunderstorm and 1u ir
the elements play on it the Oratorio of the Creation.
Here also is the "Giant's Amphitheatre," the benches of rock extending round m
NORTH I-RIINT, WINDSOR I \STI,I-:.
galleries above each other, suggesting a fit audience room for the gathering of the
Judgment Da\ .
We got into a boat and with six oarsmen rowed out on the sea and lence into twn •'
the caveni.s where the ocean rolls with a grandeur indescribable. Th^ roof of the Duu-
kerry Cave is pictured, and frescoed, and emblazoned by the hand of God. It is sixtv firt
high above high-water mark. As the boat surges into this cavern you look round, wonder-
ing whether there are enougli oarsmen to manage it. A man fires a pistol that we niav
hear the report as loud in that cavern as the heaviest crash of an August thunderstorm.
You swing round for a few moments in that .strange temple and the", come forth witli an
impression that you will carry forever. There can be no power in time or eternitv to
efface that stupendous memory. The rustic guides talk to you with the ease of a geologist
about felspar ."ud hornblende, and basalt, and trap rock.
Before you die you must see the Giant's Canscwa\'. Yon go to look at a relebr.it'fl
lake, but you have .seen other lakes. You go to look at a high mountain, but you have
ixtendiu"- rouiul in
THE WORLD AS SEEN TO-D\Y .«
seen other nionntams. Von go to see a -reat citv hut vnu hn
to see a fa„u,„s tree, >et yon have seen otl er t eV L t t h ' --;;:^''^'-,-t.es. You ^o
Canse^v^y. It stands alone and aside ft'n a^eoW^c^^ oIki" ^'^ '''^- '" ^''"'^'^
•sketch it and gives it a ten-pin allev nnn^^nm,, "f. "7"''^' ^\o. ders. I he painter ir ,,s to
canvas high enon<di no penc 1 sk If^P f' ' '"'■'^'"'' ^"'^^ ''' "P" '^^''^^^^ '-^ "o
K,ve 1,„,, n severe ,r„„„ci„^ if i. „„= „„. for ge.ti,,, I,i" fee ^ , , "/"""■■ ""■ """
..>c .1 c :;: „'-Tri:r„rfs/°;,: ?■';■ ■^"" •'" ""■" - '«"■• -- - «-,„„,. ,.,.„
.*illalal,. As ti^ vent In he Hi"h t/ '"■"' '"','""""' '''"' '"' '"' ""P"*"~ »i"' "
2 iratherintr of ih
""mmm
CIIAl'TICR XIAII.
ON THE HOME-SIRETCH.
BII-'TKHX liuii<lR-d miles from luiroi)^ ; fiftcLii liuiulrcd miles from AnK'ua.
Steamer C'//y (>/ /'<rr/'s, of ten lliousaiul five liiUKlred tons. A company of i)a^-i ;:-
,^;ers, iiitellij^ciit and j^enial, and jrionps ol' female beauty, a very flower gar ini.
Yet condensation of all discomforts — ron.^li nearl\- all the way, making the ni-lr-
almost sleepless and the days dismal. Vet I am "homeward ))ound." I have trawled i ;i
this jonrney around the world, at least fortN' thousand miles, for it has , 'it hem a
direct jonrney, but nuK h of it zigzag, and up and down many cotnitries. It has Imn
arduous beydiul
description.
Would I advise
others to take \\^
I?y nomeans, unless
the\' have emlin-
ance and patience
and courage well
de\'eloped. Xo "V.v
can realize how hij^r
the world is imr
how nnich emr-v
it takes to cireinii-
navigate it 'I'lur,
there are so ni:iii>
exjjosnres that im
one unless in e-t,i'i-
lished and rolni-;
health, ought lo |
undertake it. W'
crossed the tropics i
iiAi.i.ior, coi.i.ixn:, oxi'oun, iinclanh. twice and wciiM
from sunnner to winter and from winter back again to summer, and exchaHL;cii
palm-leaf fans for overcoats, and went from ninety degrees heat to almost frceziii;;
point. We rode in cold cars without any stoves, and sta\ed in hotels where .^tuvts
had never 1)eeu seen and fireplaces were unknown. Then there are all the ]icri:-
of the sea, dangers of collision, and conflagration, and hurricane, and l)idden rock 'i'lici!
there are the possibilities of !)roken bridges, and nn'splaced switches, and mistake^ c!
telegraphy during fourteen tliousaud miles of railroad travel. In India cholera was i>niv
three weeks ahead of us, and fewrs were all around \is. Change of water, nr places wi'civ
the drinking of water is suicide to a traveler, limits with germs of disease in tl". i",
Atnu)sphere stucharged with malaria.
THE \VORLD AS SEKN TO-DAV.
miles from Anu':i.,i.
A company of pa^.'-i i:-
a very flower <,far'kn,
ay, makin<; tlie ni^lu<
" I have traveled mi
r it has . it heiii a
iintries. It has Imn
-^ arduous beymul
description.
Would I advise
others to take it'
r>\' no means, uiiit.»
they luux- endin-
ance and patience
and conra.^e well
de\-eloped. Xu m-.e
can realize how lii^'
the world is imr
liow much eniiL;\
it takes to cireiiiii-
navi,i;ate it Tlui;
there are so n:,iii\
exposures thai r.i
one unless in e^tali-
lished and robibl
health, ou^dit to
undertake it. W-
crossed the tropics
twice, and weiit
mer, and exchanged
it to almost free/ ill;;
i hotels where stnvc<
re are all the ]iii;:-
1 hidden rock 'I'Irii
lies, and mistake^ et
idia cliolera was niiiv
water, or places w'oxw
IS of disease in tin ni.
4S7
1 am c^lad l)c\ond e.vpressiou ihii r t,„ r .1
^Hschar,e of plain duty coul.l c^ r in, n^td ro;:'''''?- ' '"' "^ '"''"^■^'"^"^ -«'i'^ "-
>nues of n.cntal eular,cn.eMt are inf nte W ■ ' ' ^■■'-•""'-^i""- The opportu-
01 knowledge than can ever be entered It " n '" r" •• ^''""■^ '' "■'— ' "'-• ' ^l^-s
exposes .superstitious, and makes in one's mind .^ ,n „'' f""- ' ""' '"''''"- "^ ^'"■^^""'^- ^""1
.^-ve. (;o if you have health to st d i /V '' . "''""'^ '^'''' "" '^'-'-^ ^■''" -' '"Hv
acquire hv the process. Do not unde i •; " - T\ "" ' " '-'T'"' '"^ ^"^'^ ^^•'-•'' -'"
>-Ip occupy son,e ibrei^u cen.eterv it ./..^^^k >'';"?' '''''^■" ''''' ^^'^'"^ '^
when you 00 aboard a vacht, or pack v n r n nk '""' ''''' ''""' "^" l•'--'•'-^^ -^
HANK <il' i:.\(,|, VM
l.dMniN.
patience 01; ,; i)lanetarv f.,:],,^,-, >,^
"e„,a,,„„„ An...:.,, ",V r, J ;:Z '"''"'■«';■•'"■' ■'^"">'--". -'I ■ ,
w
4SS
THK HARTM GIRDLED.
captain s room ! SncI, cxcniisitc conii.as.s to tell tlic sliip's bearings ! Such dinin-roonis of
plush, and upholstery, and tables all a-litter with opulent cutlerv ami ruddv with lYuns
and asmoke ^^Uh the best food from land and sky and billow ! All aboard for Melbourne '.',t
Calcutta, or IJruuhsi, or Liverpool!" l!„t tweutv-four hours alloat, and her smiles 'u-
exchan-ed for trowns, and her duiin-rooms are occu],ied bv a few forlorn nassen^ars
holdn,,^. on to plates to keep them fron. capsizin^N and your trunks -„ skatim,^ up and <lou u
tile nnmi and vou wish yourself ashore, and pronounce the ocean a liar. It'would like m
scare, t.. starve, to <ln.,vn you. The ureatcst fun the ocean e\er has is a shipwreck 1:,,^
neither the y..vaoe bv sea nor the journev by land did me aiiv <lamaoe. Xm one accident i,
all tlie wav by land or sea. Not a w.nind so much as the scratch of a pin
i was impressed with two thiiios on the journev. One w.is, liow bi- Uk- W3rld i.
Such wildernesses of water, so that 1 have been about scvcntj- davs on the sea' Siuli'
cinsTAi, r'Ai.Ati:, svdi-miam.
inlmitu.le <.f laud, oeeupied and uiioecupie<l ! A vast w<,rl<l. Au astronomical ilnl^ensit^
It there iiad been n.. otlier world it would have done quite well lor a Universe
My other impression was. how small the wr.rld is. Around it so soon. ' The disfuia ^
al the time abbreviated bv fleeter rail trains and swifter steamships. And ia all the ioiuu.
I have not been a moment bevon.l the bounds -.f mv parish. In all the cities town-
neighborhoods, an<l railroad stau,.iis, old friends, thoiioh we had never bef.ue met' .M,
and women w-ho said that Iliad more to do with their moral and spiritual destinv than I
could ever imaonie. I thou-ht tliat I had iound one exception at a railroad .station in Ind
^toi)pc(
But as I
)1 out of the carri
ige a man stepped up and called me
:li fliiiitijr-roonis c.f
nuldv willi rniii,-,,
1 inr -Melbuiinic, or
lud licr smiles ar.-
forlorn ixissciij^'crb
iliii),'- up and down
It would like lo
shipwreck. ];iit
Cot one accident in
lin.
h\;j; the world i-.
II the sea
.SuLh
-I; uLLLitallMlliiliillir
)niical inin-,ensit\.
erse,
1. Tile distanct ~
ill all the jonriK ,
the cities, town
L'fore met. .Mt
d destiny tlian i
.(1 station in Iiuh' .
nd called me Ir.
THK WORij) AS SI.:h.\ T0-I)AV.
r:^,.:T"^^^?\''^'''.'^^-' '--snot mistaken..
489
"'an he spoke of, he said : '' Xow I ' : r'"' " /', '' ' ''^"' ^'^'^"■"' ''*•" ^ ^^as the
I^I^'lras I first met vonr.o.pe, u^l^^V^ ^Zl ''1 '''''' " ""' ^'^'"^ -■'- ^'M" a
-to n.y own study at home and ,et I n.k .^ : ' '''''^ "■^' ^'"^ ^ ^^ '-< a,aia
1 ^I'HlI soon he lookinj,r for land W. ,s . , ■ •
f "- appears. » X^w that vou ha e eui Z u "'""^ "'" '^'-'^'''■'' ^''^^ -^-^'-i-'"
b-. place to live in-' , answer w ^H u :n h'- i 7^'^ ^^''"^ "" >"" ^ -'-■ ^l."
states o, America." Had it not been . t Ir n \ V"" ""'""""' ■ " ''^'^ ''"itcd
t'.at "n.o:;':;t^;;iZ.:::rx t:::;?;:-^ ^^--^^ -- ^■--'■^ - ^'^^ ^^ct
r— nr^i.-, - ■"'• '" ^''""•"'■^ '"'•'■.-■•'' ^>'- torrid or horrid?
.1 IN I ION.
-H;i::'-.;:::;,:rj;:; ---;:;- --..at .m a. ... o. .om .^rctic icce,,.
-ce liA. is an Arctic expedition T U X. 1 li r """ "''^'^ """^■^•■"- "'^ ^'^ '"umni
p;c.!on^ed shive-. Onr front^>or sU^^ ^ ^"■«":'''^' '-arrenness. I.f. ,
elnnate. Ask ..me of the Arctic ev o" s -d T' ""'"' "•■"'''"■^•<' ^^"'t'' ^'-r
Pole. Instead of killing so mmn £:",: " " ,!'" """T-"'" ''" ""'"""' ^'•^- ^'"-t"
^c^en^ers to persuade those pale inhahitaiJo : .^.' i;;::^!:':^;;"^' '^ ""' """ '''''
=.no\vs a.Ki abandon tluw,. ,•,.-,1.,... ...- ., . . ' ';'• •-""■'^^ 'O .vi\ ^ood-b
gates of er\ stal.
lose realms
ol earth to t!
(-■oiiie down into a re,
H' walrus and white 1
dm where the tl
)ear,
lernioiiK te
i-b\e to the eternal
and shut up those
eldoni dro!)
lie low
490
TIIH I':arth girdlkd.
! K
I!
zt.ro. ( )li ilif hc.uilifs of Ii;iiriii'> Iia\ , oiil\ si\ wiilo in {\\v \l'i{Vo\k\\ I W'lial a (lt.-lii;litful
tIiiii,!L; wlicu in lliosf Ari'tic itj^ioiis llicy milk ihtir cows, and milk onl\' ice cream. Let
all lli().-.e wlio live between thiil\ and fift\' (le,niees of north 'utitiule lliank Ciod, and liave
s>nipatli\ for the \ast popnlations of both hemisplKics who free/i' l)etween sixty and ei^litv
decrees of latitnde. Then compare otir atmos])iiere with the heated air infested with np-
tilian and insielile life in which most of the human race snffer. 'I'liink of India and China
and I'Uhioiii.i. Tra\-elers tell yon of the delicions oran.ne .yroves, bnt ask them abonl the
centijiedo, Tliex tell of tile odor of the forest>. bnt ask them abont the black flies. They
tell you abont the ricli |>lniiia,i;e of the birds, bnt ask them abont the malarias. Tlie\- tell
yon abont the line riders, bnt ask thini abont the licdonins and bandits. 'I'hev tell von
abont the broad piazzas. l)nl ask them about the midni^^lUs with the thermometer at an
insnlTerable one hundred and ten. \'asi cities of the torrid clime without .sewcra<>e, without
cleansin,!;, packed, and jiiled n\> wretchedness and all discomfort. What beautifid luenas!
What fascinalinn scor]>ionsl What sociable tarantulas I What ca'ptivatint li/.ards I What
wealtli of bn^sl What an opportunitv to stnd\ comi)arativc anatomy and hcr]iet()lo_^\ ! What
a cliance to look into the o])en coimtenance of the ])leasin.y crocodile I Hundreds of millions
of peo])le in such snrrouiulin.i^s. I would rather live in one of our .\merican cities in a house
with two rooms than to live in the torrid lands and own all Me.vico, all P>razil, all Ilindo-
stau, all .\rabia, all China. In other words, I would rather live betwt'en thirty and fifty
de.i^rees of latitude and own nothinsj; than to be between ten and thirty decrees of latitude.
Thirty years of life in America, or a corresponding;- latitnde, are worth more than ciohty years
of life anywhere else. We have the furs of the .Arctic and the fruits of the Torrid with all
the ])leasurable respiration of the Tem[)erate. (lod seems to say, "Come down North wind
with a tonic, and come up South wind with a balm, and mi.\ a healthful vlrauo;ht for the
lnn<;s of this nation I "
A<rain, there is not a land where wa.^cs and salaries are so lar<;e for the i^reat masses
of the people. In India four cents a day and find yourself is oood waj^es. In Ireland, in
some parts, ei<rht cents a day for waj^cs, in Kn<jland, a dollar a day j^ood wa<;es — vast pojju-
lations not ,y;ettino; as much as that. In other lands fifty cents a day and twenty-five cents
a day clear on down to starvation and sfpialor. .\n editor in Knoland told me that his .salarv
was .seven hundred and fifty dollars a \ ear, and he .seemed satisfied ! Look at the ^rcat
popidations comin.t,' out of the factories of other lands, and accom]iany them to their lionus,
and see what i)ri\ation the hard-work ini^- classes on the t)tlier side the sea snfler.
The laboring;- classes in .\merica are ten per cent better off than in any other country
under the sun — twenty per cent, forty per cent, fifty per cent, .se\enty-fivc cent. Thetoi-crs
with hand and foot have better luvines and better furnished. I do not write an abstraction.
I know what I have seen. The stone ma.sons and carpenters and ])linnbers and mechanics
and artisans of all styles in .\merica have finer residences than the majority of ))rofe.ssional
men in Kuro])e. Yon enter the laborer's house on onr side the sea and yon find upholstery
and picttires and instruments nf niusic. His children are educated at the best schools,
His life is insnred, so that in case of his sudden demise the family shall not be homeless.
Let all .American workmen know that while their wa.^es may not be as lii^h as they woidd
like to have them. Amerii-a is the paradise of industry.
A;.,Miu, th' '■e is no land on the earth where the political condition is so satisfactory as in
ours. I'^Ncry three >'ears in the ,State and every four years in tli? nation we clean house.
After a veht-ment evpn-ssinn nf the people at the ba!!ot-bo\ in the antnmnal election, they
all .seem .satisfied, and if they are not satisfied, at anv rate they smile.
k'lial a (lelij^Iitful
\vv cicaiii. I,Lt
k (lud, and Iiavc
sixty and ci^lilv
iiiVslid wiili np-
India and China
lluni aljoni tlie
lark llirs. Tluy
irias. 'l'lic-\- Ifll
'I'Ir'v tL'll you
.rnionater at an
■wcraj^c, witiidiit
cautifnl Intiias!
li/.ards ! Wliat
|>ct()l(i,t;\- ! Wlial
:lrcds of millions
cities in a luinse
raxil, all Ilindo-
lliirty and fifty
rccs of latitude,
•lan cii^lity years
■ Torrid with all
)\vn North wind
dranj^ht for the
the ti^reat masses
1. In Ireland, in
i<;es — vast ])()|)n-
wenty-five eents
le that his salary
ook at the i^reat
1 to their honus,
iiffer.
ly other conntry
Mit. The tf^ikrs
can abstraction.
^ and mechanics
,■ of |)r()fe.ssional
I find npholstery
he hest schools.
ot he homeless,
h as they would
satisfactory as in
we clean house,
al election, tlu\'
492
run IvAkTH (;ikl)LP':i).
All I';ii-li-,Iiiiiaii a-^kc'd iiio in an lui-iisli niil-tiaiu Uun (|iiosti()ii : ' How do yon people
St, 111(1 it in Aimiica with a icvoliitiou cvlmv four years? Wouldn't .1 he better for von, like
ns, to liavc' a (|neeii lor a lifetiiiic and ever\ tiiinj,' settled?" Knjriand chancres jrovfrniiieiit
just as certaiiil\- as we do. At some adverse vote in I'arliaiiienl out jroes Disraeli and in
comes Crladstone, out jj:oes(;iadst(nK in comes Salisl)nry, out "oes Salisbnrv and in conies
(iladstone apin, or Lord Rosehciy, or out j^oes Roseherry and in comes Salisbury.
Admini>trations dvAU'^c lluiv, but not as advanta-eonsiy as with ns, for tluic
tliey may change almost any da\ , while with ns a party in i)ower coiitiniu > in power loiir
years.
It is said that in onr country we have more political dislioiusiy than in am otlur land.
Tlu' dillennce is that in our country almost every official has a chance to ste ', while in
oIIkt lands a few pcojile absorb so much that tlu others have no chance at a|)propriatioii.
The reason tJuy d(. not steal is, they cannot -et their hands on it! The <j()veninu'iits of
CONWAY CASTt.n, NORTH WAI,i:S, ONI.: OI- Tin- Nf)l!I.T:ST C'ASTiai..\Tiai STl<n.Triii;S IX r.RI'AT URITAIN.
Kiirope are so e.\i)ensive that after the salaries of the nnal families are paid there is not
much left to misappropriate.
The lunperorof Rn.ssia has a nice little salar\- of $8,210,000. The luniieror of Austria
has a \early .salary of $4,000,000. Victoria, the Oiieen, has a salary of $2,200,000. The
royal plate of vSt. James' Palace is worth .$10,000,000. The Oueen's hairdre.s.ser j^cts Sio,ooo
a year for conibiiif,^ the royal locks, while the most of ns have to comlxmr hair at less than
half that expense, if we have any to comb !
Over there, there is a host of attendants, all on salaries, some of them $5000 and
I6000 a year. Master of Buck Ilonnds, $8500 a year, (irand I'alconer, $6000 a >car.
(I translate jionnds into dollars.) Centleinen of the Wine and Beer Cellars, Controller of
the Ilonsehold, (Irooin of the Robes, Mistress of the Robes, Captain of Cold Stick, Lieuten-
ant of Silver Stick. Clerk of the Powder Closet, Paj,'<-'s of the P.ack Stairs, Maids of Honor,
Master of Hor.se, Chief Kqucrrv, Kqnerries in Ordinary, Crown Kqnerrv, Hcrcditarv
Grand Falconer, Vice Chamberlain, Ckik of the Kitchen, Master of I'orks, (hoonis in
w do yoii people
tt(.T for you, like
ii^^is <,r()vcniiiuiit
DisraLli and in
r\ and in cdnics
nines Salisbury,
us, for tliiTf
c-^ in power four
an\ (itlur land.
' stc , while in
t a])j)roiiriatinn.
},n)Vfrnincntsof
TIIH WORLD AS SKKX TO-DAV.
ri;at iiun'AiN.
id iIkic is not
leror of Austria
,200,000. The
icr <,^cts Si 0,000
air at less than
cm $5000 ar.d
$6000 a year.
>, Controller of
Stick, Licuten-
[aids of Honor,
•ry. Hereditary
ks, (i rooms in
Waitin- Lords in Waitin- (Inx.nisor the f *,•,.. f fi , . ^'^^
and Watern,an, Ki.ht ne.I;;hand, ' Wol/'^^.^ "" '^'■' 'TT ^'l ■'""^' "^"«^' ^•-^-
orthe.,..Cl.i.,andsoo„,audsoo:;;;/;;;^':;^ an.l..,renC;roon.s
r— ' ■■'.lu.siicu r ll(jue\er nuieh
•^r. J.\Mi:s M.ACH, I.OM ON-
tile Germans like William, and the Spaniards lik,. n, •
splendid Queen, these stupendous .-.'r m n ■ txnenser""f T'^ "" ^'''^'^"^ '"^^ ^'-
t.on as wide as Europe. If it ^vere lef t H '''^'''''''\^J'- '"■■'' on a oroan of d.ssatisfac-
or Spain, of Russia, Whether El^S^^^ ' '' j::;::!:':;:'.^ "^^"'!-."^ ^—v- ^^ Austria.
wliat the vote
would be ?
icsc expensive establLshments .sh, uJd be k
cpt. uj), do you doubt
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TIIK WORLD AS SKlvX TO-DAY.
)iitL'(l all over the
and th()U^an(l^ d'
It' luuuls 'f 1mik>i
c c'lsi'. 'I'lic air is
are l)iiil(liii>4 -luli
t ill tJK'ir tiiiK' lur
R- .slivits of I'liija-
\ast fortiUK'S lur
t protubcraiicf mh
hc'Sf (.'Slates of (li>-
il is uotliiiii; with
1st look at 'Juir
Is hiiilt at falHiloiis
t \'asl (.'xpeiisf, ami
lul people, l\veiil\-
.' is eii^ht iiiillidii
.valls covered will:
lo; aj(aiiist all the
lid filtli and ahdni-
^- one vast nioiuip-
)out forty-five inil-
Hritain and yet all
it tliirty-iwo tin m-
|j;li to shake tin.
e\()iisliire owning
■s ill Derby. Duke
liree hmulred thou-
astle. ]Marc|iiis dl
jonnicy of one Iniu-
liiie, all on his own
erlaiid has an estate
ichdips into tlie sea
as we have it in
I times woise there.
II .\iiicrica a fiw
II otli'.TS, we luust
1st tliroiid- of otiier
>•. It is estimated
n additii).! to this,
Tens of tlioiisand.-
wortli one hundred
vStates are on their
will be rich.
I furtune and your
to make — will \ on
?" .Scores of men
-ne on to take their places in';.! u' ""Xil^T^ ^i!' T'' ■ '"" ""' ''"'^"^^-^ ^ ^'-•
eu. JiCMclL tiiat, the (iuniainsol ].;iir,,pi- aiKl .Asia
XOOM ,x «„,u, SHAKKSPKAKI. WAS ,<n,<N
n^riv.'t'-i,.':;:^. ; ::' ;-':7;' "^ ■'-" >-■ >-. ■ ,„..
I.. oUkt lands, if f„n,„K, fn.t . " , [ i ■"'," ',"■ '"T"' T '""■ '""' ' «•
o". "niH„M.able prairies and „«\,fi:";:L[in,;e :,-,":;'""' "'" """ "^ '"^■- -" '«•<-
pn. o„;„T:;.;:;vf:r! I;;?;;:,:::;: ::,^j'''"'t^'^"r-^ "'''''■ '"™ w.i.avcjnst
and tin-
Ne.tfetabies f
roiu all the "ardei
'His, and tlie meats fr
IS and the silver from all tl
oin
tl
le markets.
ic inine.s, and the dinner
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496
THK EARTH GIRDLKD.
»ii
bcl! iiii<,'>, saviii.t^ : " Cour- and dhic. Coniu all llic laopiu fiDiu between the two oceans.
Come fn.iii i)etweeii the Thousaiui Isles ar.d the Culf of Mexico. Come ami diae !"
A<;aiii ! our iiatio i is more fully at peace than aay other. At least fifteen million of
men helon.t;- to the standin,t,r armies of luirope to-day. Since we had onr conflict, on tlie
other side the sea tiiey have had Zulu war, Afi,diau war, l';ov])iian war, Rus.so-Tinkish
war, (lerman-lMcnch war, Japan-Chinese war. '.-'o certainlv about the future. All the
governments of Ivirope watchinj^ each (jther, lest one of them oet too much advanta;^e.
Diplomacy all the time nervously at work. 1-onr nations watching the Sue/. Canal a>
carefnlly as four cats could watch one rat.
In order to keep pe;..ce, inlermarria.i^es of royal families; some bri<,dit princess compelled
to niarry some disrit^reeable forei<,rn (li.-^nilary in order to keep the balance of jMjlitical power
in Hurope, the illv matched pair fi<;htin<v out on a small .scale that which would have been
an international contest, .sometimes the hnsband holdin-.,- the balance of power, sometimes
tile wile holdini^- the balance of power. One nnwi.se stroke of (Madslone's pen after Garni t
Wol.seley had captured Tel-el-kel)ir. and all ICurope would have b-en one battlefield.
Crowded cities, crowded ,^:overnments, crowded learned institutions, crowded j^reat cities
clo.se by each other.
Vou "(ct in the cars in America, and yon ride one hundred or one hundred and
fifty miles; then you come to a ,t;reat city, as Philadelphia, as Albany, as Boston.
I <;ot on the cars at Manchester, and clo.scd my eyes foi a lont,^ sleep before I i^ui to
Liverpool. In forty minutes I was aroused out of sleep b\- some one .saying, " We are here ;
tliis is IJvcrpool." Tlie cities crowded. The i)()i)ulations crowded, packed in between the
Pyrennes and the Ali)s, packed in between the I-ji.i^disli Chainiel and the Adriatic, .so
closely they cannot move without trcadin,^; either on each other's heels or toes. Sceptres
clashin^^; chariot wheels collidin,l,^ The nations of Asia and Kurope this moment
wondering what next. P>nt on onr continent we ha\e jiIcu'lv of room and nobodv to fight.
Eight million square miles in North America and all but o. enth capable of rich culti-
vation, implying what fertility and what commerce! P-,, , great basins pouring their
waters into the .\tlantic. Pacific, .\rctic and CuH of Alexico. Shore line of twentv-ni> e
thou.sand nine hundred and sixt\-ninc miles. The one State of Te.xas with more .scinare
miles than all iMancc, than all Oermanw
That our continent might have plenty of ell)ow room and not be jo.stled bv the effete
governments of I';nro])e, (iod sank to the depths of the .sea a whole continent that once
ran from off the coast of Phiroiie to the coast of America — the continent of Atlantis— which
allowed the human race to pass from p;nrope to America on foot, with little or no sliipping ;
that continent dimly described in hi.story, but the existence of which has been proved by
arcluxological evidences iunnmerable ; that whole continent sunken so that a fleet of Ger-
man, British and American vessels had to take deep sea .soundings to touch the top of it ;
that highway from Phn-oi)e to America entirely removed so that for the most part only the
earnest and the jHTsevering and the bra\e could reach America and that through long sea
voyage.
Governments on the southern tip of this continent are graduallv coming to the time
wlien they will beg for annexation. ( )n the other hand beautiful and hospitable Canada,
the vast majority of the people there are more republican than monarcliial in their feelings,
and the chief difference between them and ns is that they live on one side of the St. Lrw-
rence a id we on the other. The day will come wdien Canada will be found waiting for onr
governnie'it to propo.se marriage, and when we do s.., she will look down and blnsh, and,
en tile two oceans,
and diac !"
fifteen million of
nr eonlliet, on tl;i.'
;ir, Rnsso-Tniki>li
-• ftitnre. All {\w
nuieli a(lv;inla.m'.
lie Suez Canal as
[irincess conipilKil
of pcjlitical \)o\\xr
I would have bitn
jxnver, soinctiiiKs
s [K'li after Ganut
II one hattlefu'ld.
iwded threat eitits
one linndred and
bany, as Boston.
} before I 5401 to
s;, " We are lure ;
ed in between llu-
1 the Adriatic, so
or foes. Sceptres
jpe this inonuiil
1 nobody to fij^lit.
a1)le of rich cnlli-
ins ]H)nriiijj^ tluir
lie of twenty-ni'c
ivitli nioTo scinare
stled by the effete
jntinent tliat once
f Atlantis — which
e or no shipping; ;
is been proved by
liat a fleet of Ger-
ich the top of it ;
iiost part only the
through long sea
lining to the time
ospitablc Canada,
I in their feeling;.,
e of the St. L:\v-
id waiting for onr
n and blush, and,
49'S
thp: karth (hrdlrd.
yi
tliiiikiii<; of licr allcj^naiicc across tlic >ci, will say: "Ask inothcr." Peace all overtly
continent, and nothing' to fisjilit about. What a pity that slavtMy is <4()nc ! While that la-ii.l
we had something; over which the orators could develop their muscles of vituperation ,n>:
calumny.
We are so hardly put to it for military demonstration that j^uns and swords and cann..;,
were called out a few years aj^o to celebrate the bi-c.ntennial of William I'cnn, the peacelui
Quaker for whom a ,<,nni woidd never ha\e been of auv nse except to han<r his broad-brim
iuit on. Oh, what .shall we do for a fi<;ht? Will not somebody strike us? Wc caumt
draw swords on the subject of civil .service reform, or free trade, or " corners " in wlun.
Our ships of war are crnisinj^ around the ocean liopinj,' for somethin^^ iuterestin.n to turn up
Sumter and Moultrie and I'nla.ski and I'ortre.ss Monroe have not si)()ken in twenty-nine
.SrfRGKON'.S T MIKUNACI.i:.
vears. (runpowder out of fashion, and not even allowed the juvenile poptUation on Fourth
of July. Fire crackers a sin.
America is struck thr()U<,di and throu,q;li with peace. There is hardly a Northern
citv where there are not Confederate <.'cnerals in its law offices or commercial establishments
or insurance companies. There you sit .side by side — you wdio wore the blue and you who
wore the grav — vou who kindled fires on the opposite side of the Potomac in
the winter of 1862 — you who followed Stonewall Jack.sou toward the North and xou
who followed General Sherman toward the South. Why are you not breaking each other's
heads ?
Ah ! von have irreparably mixed up your politics. The Northern man married a
Southern wife, and the Southern man married a Northern wife, and your children arc half
Missis-sippiau and half New F^^nglander, and to make another division between the Nonli
and the vSouth jKissible yon would have to do with your child as Solomon proposed with tin-
child brought befoie him in judgment ; divide it with the sword, giving half to the North
opulatioii on iMmitli
run WORLD AS si<;i':x TO-DAV.
499
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OiUf will U; l,„w wc |,„,|,lc i,| A,,,,.,.:,.,, "'""'"• ■" 'I "'> 'l™> ■ KUHnillulis t, ,
NKW YORK nAV, CASTr.K CVRniCN- AM. sTATt,.: oi-
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Are yo„r nerve, wcnk ami in ncoil „f l.radii.. IMP C,,, \-„«l, i „
aiKl 111 need or haliiiv airs' O,, Sonll, u r , '"',^""'- '» V™ir throat delicate
West. Almost anvtiiii,, vo,i u ™ ea, ,.,": P ";""; '' "'"', """ '""" """' ' '"'
read. ».1»t >oil can liaxe. I'lelity to eat, |,le„ty l„ „-„„, plenty to
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it ha.s treated nic well B„t t li \ , I ' """' """"'" ''• ^^''^'' f''^^' ^"xcentions
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500
Tin- KARTM (URDLHl).
Xfw Zealand, and tlu- voya.i^c from llicir to Anslialia. I adiniiv tin.' sea wIkii I stand im
slidic and Iixik at it, hnl wlicn sailing' npon it and walchin!:; some of its ]xiro\ysnis of raj^e,
its billows seem like so many lavin.i; monsters ready to devonr. At Caleiitta, at the Zo(jlo,i;-
ical (larden, I saw the i'enua! ti^a-rs and heard them j^rowl, and saw them paw the iron l)ai^
in elTorl to j^et at ns. Vet tlie\- were cajjed, and there was nodan<,fer. Hnt the ocean is one
hundred thousand Hen^^al ti.ij^ers, and they run their paws np the side of the ship and sa\ :
" Why take those people into New York Harbor ? (iive them to ns I Von must think that
ocean l)illows are never hnii,i,ay ! How we would like with our lonj; tonj^iies to lick tlieii
blood I (iive ns that ocean steamer ! " Ves, I am afraid of the ocean. Were it not for
the entertaining; si<;hts on the other side of the sea and the enlar<renient foreijjjn Iravil
jrives to the traveler, I would never step on lioard a ship. The onl\- ])art of an ocean
\-o\a,t,a' I enjoy i.s <;oin^f ashore, and I shall soon have that opjiortunity. Vet this I write
on board as j^rand a steamer as ever with its .screw bored its way throuj^h the Atlantic ;
a steamer ct)nimanded by Captain Watkins, than wh.om no more competent or affable officer
ever trod the ship's bridj;e in a cyclone ; a steamer in wliich all the appointments are so com-
plete that I cannot think of a possible improvement. The Hiblc .says a tiling which exaclh
.suits me where it prophesies the arrival of a time when " there shall be no more sea."
I shoidd like to jjreach its funeral sermon, but it will take a bi.t;- cemetery to hold the
dead Atlantic, and the dead Pacific, and the dead Mediterranean, and the dead Indian
( )cean.
Throuj^h the narrows and into New York Harlror. Sandy Hook even looks beautiful :
I think I must be a poor sailor. Statue of Liberty .still holdinjf its torcli on one side.
Staten Island with its wealth of comfortable homes on the other. Fort Lafayette and Fort
Hamilton with their doji^s of war chained and their lions of terror sound asleep on their iron
l)aws. New Jersey over there, the place of my cradle. Lon,<; Island over there, the place
of my ,^rave. Hetween the shores the jjreat .sapphire pathway of nations. The mammoth shi]>
on which we sail but one of whole fleets of vessels which, bearin<r all fla^js from all
nations, have floated here. What innumerable keels, wooden, or iron, orstoel, have i)lowed
here for what harvests of commercial inj^atherin*; ! What forei.<>n " men-of-war "' in Revolu-
tionary times pa.ssinj,^ up to sink at Hell (late ! Up this bay liave come what patriots from
all lands ; what escaped captives of all tyrannies; what friends and coadjutors from all
zones — Lafayette, Kosciusko and Kossuth! Mi<>-hty New Vork Harbor I Every curve of
its shores ; every shimmer of its wa^-es ; every toss of crystalline brijrlitne.ss from the cut-
water of its shippinir, sut;<restin.<r the prosperities of the ])ast and the ".greater ]>rosperities of
the future. Glorious New Vork Harbor I This is the thirteenth time I have entered it
trom transatlantic voyaj^c, but it never looked .so invitin.i; as to-day ; perhaps because I am
home-sick after the lon<;est absence of a lifetime. Hut it does .seem as if the banks were
more .i,aacefnl, and as if the snnli,qht had threads more .ij-olden, and as if the 1)rcath of the
orchards, and o;ardcns, and fields were more aromatic, and as if the clouds now hovering;
had charioteers more richly attired to .^uide them. Ves, there are the spires of the old
churches where many generations have worshiped. There are the storehouses where the
merchants of other days bartered. There are the streets alonj; which the beau.\ and belles
of this century, when it was youn<,s walked, and smiled, and coquetted. And there is the
Brooklyn Brid<^c throwing; its arm from city to city as sister links her arm in the arm of
.sister. Lovely New Vork Harbor I Happy be all the hearts that .sail over it! Welcome
all the be-stormcd crafts that .seek its .shelter! Blown to atoms be all the foreign wai
shipping; that shall j^ut its accursed prows into its now peacetul waters !
^•Ik'11 I stand on
loxNsins of ia;;t,',
ta, at the Zuuloo.
[law the iron liais
tliL' ocean is oik'
U' ship and sa\ :
nnist think that
ncs to lick thi.il
Were it not lor
It fovcij^n tiavil
)ait of an ocean
Yet this I write
^li tlie Athnitic;
or affal)le officer
iiieiitsarc socdin-
!<;■ wliich exactly
.' no more sea."
tery to hold tlie
the dead Indian
looks bcantiful :
rch on one side,
fayctte and Iniit
eep on their iron
there, the place
lemannnoth .sliij)
I flajrs from all
:cel, have jilowed
war " in Revoln-
hat patriots from
djntors from all
Iv\ery curve of
■ss from the ciit-
■r ])rospcrilies of
have entered it
ps becansc I am
the banks were
he breath of the
Is now hoveriiio
ipires of the old
onses where the
beaux and belles
^nd there is the
m ill the arm of
cr it I Welcome
the foreign wai
Tpli
f'
503 Till- IvARTH C.IRDLKD.
And now my loii.:^ jonrncy is fnikd. I Ikim' j^inllcd tlic- eaitli with tiavfl, and am .it
the front steps dosvn wliicli I came on tlie nii^lil of M.i\- fourteenth, to start on my jonrnev
aronnd tlie world. 1 low dilTerenl the emotion^ witli wliieli I ascend tluin from the emotions
with whicii I descended tlieni. Tiien tile journey was before nie ; now the jonrney is
behind me. Then it was };oo(l-b\e; now it is welcome. The door is opened, and I pass
in ;ind am at liome, the bri;.,ditest i)lace on carlli. Dnrinjr my journey I have been in larger
dwellings, and amid costlier tapestrv, and amid more expensive pictures, and under j^nander
arches, but in my memory the\- all fall into insignificance coiiip.-ired with this abode. I-'verv
room associated with some scene of domestic life. This one a l)irthi)lace ; tlial one a l)ridal
arch ; aiiotlur a death chamber ; :uid for seventeen yeais associated with stiirinire.xperiences
SI.i;i:iMNC. KdOM AT UK. T\l,MAI',i;'S HtlMK.
in whicli sunshine and shadows have chased each other. Cowper sanj,^ the praises of the
sofa ; if I were a poet I would put into rhythm these chairs, and tables, and family pictures.
But as I enter after loni; sojourn they all chime their own rhyllini ; they all rin^r their own
cantos ; they all speak their own salutations. Home ! It is a charincd word. Throu<;h
that one syllable thrill untold melodies, the lau-;liter of children, the sound of well-known
foot-steps, and the voices of undyiii<jf affection. Home ! I hear in that won', the ripple of
meadow brooks in which knee-deep we waded, the lowinjj; of cattle coming up from the
pasture, the sharp hiss of the .scythe amid thick grass, the creaking of the hay rack where
we trampled down the load. Home ! Upon that word there drop the sunshine of
TIIH WORLD AS SHKX TO-DAV. 5,,,
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nan... It .lows Uk. a s.nis.t ^n!! ikrra,. /^^t r.'''^' '' f "'■: '^ '^="'^ "^^ ^'
•>» I>.v a spirit rn.,„ I,,,,,.,!], sl,„„l,l :.\ , *"'/ -'^ ' i^""' " '"'"^' '^•^'^■"^^'-U-Ikt, ,n«f(l
ci.ihiru, woui.i ...„., ,";,,:„,'; " "■ ; "'-^ """'' """" ^•■^' '-^-«^- Ua.
-o..i.l co,„. Ion h to cover tw i "' ■^^"■""'^'" -'"1 '1— rs, a„.l ,1,. w.allhv
mt.rly,iv.„„ptl,;s.a,;h :„" :^ ,, tJ ;:^^ ^' ^ iron. I..tl,K.lK.„, t<. K,,pt. a.ul
'il
A BURMKSK BKI-I.R.
Burnmli, like Siara, its close neighbor, is the land of the White KIcphant and of other strange conceits in social customs as
well as relision. The illustration above represems a yonng lady nf thr ariM.-v-racy, eluthed ill the most costlv and fasluoiu,t>Io
rainieni of the period. A habit amonR these people, especially prevalent an\on(,' rich ladies, is that of chewing the betel-nut,
which colors the teeth a jet black, and a majority ol them are alio inveterate cigarette smokers.
U
;s ill social custoiii<i as
□stiy anci fashionable
lewing the beteluul,